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Piotr Skubisz is an independent photographer passionate about portrait photography, the human body, and the exploration of self-awareness and self-discovery.


Biography
Piotr Skubisz (b. 1978, Poland) is an internationally awarded Fine Art Photographer, specializing in intimate portraiture and the human form. His artistic standing is confirmed by the title Rank #1 Poland Fine Art Photographer (One Eyeland, 2024), SWPA Shortlist (Sony World Photography Awards), and IPA 3rd Place (Professional) for his work “Portrait of a Poet – A Journey Through Layers” series. 
In 2025, the photograph “Gaze” was acquired for Szymon Brodziak's private collection, and Piotr Skubisz is represented by Brodziak Gallery.
Piotr is an independent photographer passionate about portrait photography, the human body, and the exploration of self-awareness and self-discovery. He graduated from The Film School in Łódź (PWSFTviT) and Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, where he developed an interest in cultural anthropology. This background strongly influences his approach to capturing the human experience. Photography is for him a continuous journey of experiencing and discovering, blending aesthetics with reflection. His status as an artistic authority and expert in portraiture is further confirmed by numerous media features, including an extended conversation on Polish Radio RDC about his vision for masterful portraiture and cross-cultural encounters.
Piotr collaborates with individuals to create authentic, expressive portraits and fine art photography. His work explores the nuances of human emotion and cultural identity, striving to capture the essence of each portrayed subject. He has been recognized by the prestigious LensCulture Portrait Awards (Finalist) and received Gold and Bronze medals at PX3. More comprehensive details on awards and recognition can be found in the Awards & Recognition section below. 
Currently based in Warsaw, he enjoys travelling and is always open to new challenges. Commissions are welcome, including travel assignments.

Awards & Recognition  (2024-2025)
2026:
Entry of the Week (WPOT Blog Feature), Open Competition, Portraiture, for "Reflected Presence"
2025:
• 2025 SWPA, Sony World Photography Awards: Shortlist, Open competition, Portraiture (link)
• 2025 PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris: Bronze Medal (Portraiture/Family)
• 2025 TIFA, Tokyo International Foto Awards: Bronze Medal (People / Family) for "Reflected Presence", Honorable Mentions 2x ("Sphinx" Fine Art / Portrait. "O. Balance People-Portrait" )  
• 2025 LensCulture Portrait Awards 2025: Finalist (Portrait Series). See my recognized series on the LensCulture profile.
• 2025 BIFA, Budapest International Foto Awards: Silver Winner (Fine Art – Portrait Series), Bronze Winner (People – Family)
•2025 Brodziak Academy: TOP10 Masters of Creation for "Implicit". Honorable Mention 2x
• 2025 B&W IPA Association Paris, Black And White International Photo Awards: Winner of a Bronze Medal in the category « Portrait » Series
• 2025 Exposure One Awards, One Shot Photo Contest: Silver Winner (Portrait), People's Vote Award (Portrait), Honorable Mention (Portrait), Nominee (People) (link)
• 2025 NYPA, New York Photography Awards 2025: Silver Winner (Professional), Fine Art Photography (link)
• 2025 Exposure One Awards, Photographer of the Year Contest, Honorable Mention 2x (Portrait, Fine Art), Nominee 3x (Portrait, People, Minimalism)
• 2025 Minimalist Photography Awards, Honorable Mentions 2x, Portrait Category
• 2025 ReFocus Awards, Black & White Photo Contest, 4x Nominee (2x Portrait, People, Fine Art)
• 2025 Life Framer The Soul Made Visible | PORTRAITS 2025: Editors' Pick
• 2025 LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards: Editors' Pick
• 2025 LensCulture New Visions 2025, Humanity: Editors' Pick
• 2025 MonoVisions Photography Awards, 3x Honorable Mention (1x Series, Portrait; 2x Single Photo, Portrait)

2024:
• 2024 PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris: Gold and Bronze Medal (Portraiture/Personality) 
• 2024 TIFA, Tokyo International Foto Awards: Bronze Medal (People-Portrait), Honorable Mentions (4x) 
• 2024 IPA, The International Photography Awards: Official Selection (Fine Art-Portrait, People-Lifestyle, People-Traditions/Culture) 
• 2024 ReFocus Awards, The World Photo Annual Awards: Silver Medal (Fine Art), Bronze Medal (People), Bronze Medal (Portrait), 4x Nominee (2x Portrait, People, Fine Art) (link)
• 2024 One Eyeland, World’s Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2024: 4x Silver (2xPortrait, 2xPeople).
Country Tittle Winners: Rank #1 Poland Fine Art Photographers
• 2024 Monochrome Awards: 3rd Place (Portrait), Honorable Mentions (2x) 
• 2024 Brodziak Academy: TOP10 Masters of Creation 
• 2024 FAPA, Fine Art Photography Awards: 3x Nominee in Portrait
• 2024 APA, Annual Photography Awards: Honorable Mentions (3x People: Portraiture) 
• 2024 Life Framer: Black & White Editors’ Pick, Raw Emotions ​​​​​​

Exhibitions
• Sony World Photography Awards 2025 Traveling Exhibition (Digital Display). Selected locations below; full list on the SWPA website:
   •Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany (16 October 2025 – 18 January 2026) [Ongoing]
   •Museo Diocesano Carlo Maria Martini, Milano, Italy (12 June – 28 September 2025)
   •FOTOFEST Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (19 September – 3 October 2025)
   •Salon de la Photo, Paris, France (9 – 12 October 2025)
• 2025 "TOP10 Masters of Creation" Brodziak Gallery, Poznań, Poland (November 29 - December 15, 2025). Exhibition of the TOP10 Masters of Creation competition laureates
• 2025 IMAGENATION PARIS 2025, Paris Photo OFF (November 14-18 2025) - ICONIC PHOTO SHOW, Galerie Joseph Chapon, 17 Rue Chapon, Paris (November 15-18 2025) 
• 2025 FotoSlovo Awards 2025 Winners and Finalists. Limassol, Cyprus (September 22-28, 2025) 
• 2025 Solo Exhibition "Gazes," African Beats Festival 2025, Dworek pod Wiecha, Kawęczyn near Warsaw, Poland (August 8–10, 2025)
• 2025 "DISOBEDIENT IMAGES" Group Exhibition, Arles 2025 OFF Program (July 7-13, 2025). Featuring "O. Balance" from the series 'Portrait of a Poet – A Journey Through Layers' (ProfiFoto), (WhiteWall)
• 2024: "TOP10 Masters of Creation" Group Exhibition, Brodziak Gallery, Poznań, Poland (November 15-26, 2024). Exhibition of the TOP10 Masters of Creation competition laureates
• PX3, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris – 2024 Award Winners' Exhibition (Digital/On Screen Presentation)
   • Galerie 24b, Paris, France (November 5-9, 2024)
   • House of Lucie Athens, Greece (November 2024)
   • House of Lucie Ostuni (Puglia), Italy (November 2024)
   • House of Lucie Budapest, Hungary (November 2024)
• TIFA, Tokyo International Foto Awards – 2024 Award Winners' Exhibition (Digital/On Screen Presentation)
   • House of Lucie Budapest, Hungary (April 2025)

Fine Art Prints & Gallery Representation
Brodziak Gallery (Collector's Representation)
Piotr Skubisz is represented by the renowned Brodziak Gallery in Poland, confirming the artistic and investment value of his work. A limited selection of high-quality Fine Art Prints (e.g., “Portrait of a Poet” and “Dessert”) is available for acquisition.

Investment Value & Print Details
All works are produced as Limited Collector's Photography, using archival pigment prints on the highest quality photographic paper, meeting museum longevity standards. Each piece is manually numbered and bears the author's signature, accompanied by a dedicated Certificate of Authenticity. Editions are strictly limited to a maximum of 30 copies total. The progressive pricing policy ensures that each subsequent print sold increases the value of earlier acquisitions, making the purchase a solid investment in art.

Editor's Pick & Artistic Quality
Recognized with multiple international awards, the image 'Pearl. Marble' is one of the iconic works of the series. The work's suitability as a large-format collector's print was highlighted by the LifeFramer Editor concerning this artistic vision: "It tells the story of a subject and will look great as a large print."
Piotr Skubisz Fine Art Prints from Brodziak Gallery collection.

Other Acquisition Channels
Selected Works Available for Purchase Online:
• Saatchi Art – Explore and purchase a selection of my fine art photography prints available on this leading global online art marketplace.
For inquiries about any image from my portfolio, including works not listed here, please contact me directly.

Featured Media & Publications
•​ANALOG Mag #02/2025 (printed only)
 Cover Photographer & Featured Artist: Multiple images published with accompanying journalistic text inside.
•Culture Kaleidoscope, 100 Contemporary Artists of our Time, Prazzle Arts 2025 (printed)
•Sony World Photography Awards Book 2025 (printed)
•PX3 18 (2024) Book, The Prix de la Photographie, Paris (printed)
•DISOBEDIENT IMAGES Book, ProfiFoto, Arles 2025 (printed)
•Monochrome Awards Book 2024 (printed)
•Der Greif, Issue18, Tomorrow is Today, by Hank Willis Thomas, 2025 (printed)
•All About Photo AAP Magazine #46: Women 2025 (printed)
•All About Photo Portrait of a Poet: A Journey Through Layers, 2025 (online)
•ProfiFoto Magazine (Issue 7/8, 2025). Full-page feature of the photograph 'O. Balance' from the 'Portrait of a Poet – A Journey Through Layers' series, promoting the “DISOBEDIENT IMAGES” Group Exhibition at the Arles 2025 OFF Program. (printed)
• ICONIC Magazine (Issue N.010 Autumn/Winter 2025-26) (printed) – Featured works from the IMAGENATION PARIS 2025 exhibition during the Paris Photo OFF program.
•THE NKD BOOK Vol 2 2025, Still Human Editions (printed)
•THE PPL BOOK 2025, Still Human Editions (printed)
•THE FSH BOOK 2025, Still Human Editions (printed)
• Polish Radio RDC (September 2025) – Interview on the "Wieczór RDC" program, discussing the art of masterful portraiture, travels, and international awards. (link to the podcast)
•Fotopolis.pl (August 2025) – Featured work from the IPA 2025 winning series, "Portrait of a Poet – A Journey Through Layers". Article title: "IPA 2025 - Polacy zwycięzcami prestiżowego konkursu" (online)
•Photo Vogue by Vogue Italia (online)
•Piotr Skubisz Lens Culture profile 
•Iconic Artists online
•Newsweek Poland
Portrait of Piotr Skubisz, an independent fine art and portrait photographer exploring the human form.
Artistic Statement
Photography is for me an unending journey of experiencing and discovering. My work explores the intricate layers of identity, self-discovery, and cultural identity through the intimate language of portrait and body photography. Each image aims to blend aesthetics with introspection, inviting viewers to reflect on the diverse narratives that shape our world.
Photography is for me a path to discovering and understanding otherness, which also redefines myself. I am constantly on a journey, even while remaining in the same place. 
From my earliest years, I have been fascinated by otherness in its broadest sense. This fascination, born in the gray reality of communist Poland, led me to immerse myself in books about people from other cultures, from distant lands, in search of understanding other cultures, places, and people. Later, I became absorbed in science fiction literature, which offered a different perspective on the reality surrounding me, from various points of view. For example, Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness," where there is a species similar to humans known to us from Earth, with the difference that the organism assumed a given gender only for the duration of the mating season. This described condition showed how many things, views, our perception of reality, cultural conditioning, often unconsciously determine our perception of other people, the world, what is considered obvious and absolute. And ourselves as well. Just as much of our perception of the external world is conditioned by our own body – left side, right side.
Better vs. worse. 
The human being and the body, through which we communicate and perceive the world – these are the topics that are a constant mystery to me, the main motif of my photography. Which in turn is a medium of contact with this mystery, a constant discovery of the Other, the Unknown. 
Through my lens, I strive to celebrate the beauty of diversity and the universal quest for understanding and connection.

Piotr Skubisz photography awards and honors badges from 2024 and 2025
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