Piotr Karpinski

London, UK

Piotr Karpinski’s work has focused on the theme of mortality and has been exhibited in the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2019 exhibition in The National Portrait Gallery, London. Awarded by The British Journal of Photography with The Breakthrough Award 2016. Exhibited by The Royal Photographic Society twice as part of International Print Exhibitions and Magnum Swap Shop by Magnum Photos- Magnum Photos 70 with David Hurn & Martin Parr to name some. Selected for a number of books and publications including The Catlin Guide 2015|New Artists in the UK -a book printed annually with an introduction to the 40 most promising new graduate artists in the United Kingdom Piotr’s work has been selected for Creative Review The Photography Annual 2015 publication showcasing the best in commercial photography and finest photographers’ personal projects. Selected for Flash Forward 2016 & 2017 by The Magenta Foundation/ book feature: Flash Forward 2017 (and 2016) Emerging photographers from Canada, the United Kingdom & the United States; Portrait of Britain 2018 Winner- Nationwide exhibition by The British Journal of Photography + Portrait of Britain 2018 book feature by Hoxton Mini Press; Saatchi Screen Project at Saatchi Gallery, London to name some.

2016 - Flash Forward 2016, 2016 - Breakthrough Award- British Journal of Photography, 2015 - Creative Review The Photography Annual 2015, 2015 - The Catlin Guide 2015|New Artists in the UK, 2015 - International Print Exhibition 158 / RPS

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Woman in the Church No.1

Piotr Karpinski

My work is about Life and Death. I am fascinated by both. What is always behind the image is a thought. Thoughts behind my photographs are my fascinations, fears and concerns related to existence and its ending. I use photography to record these. I often work with constructed photography.

Boy crying

Piotr Karpinski

“I Wish You Live Forever” is a set of constructed portraitures on the topics of mortality, passing time, death and rebirth. The subject is sourced from an emotional journey of mine: a period of a few years of depression towards a full recovery and finding a new way. I think of these portraits as emotional landscapes. Each picture has a different story behind it. It is not always vital who my models were. The aim was to catch my own mental states and emotions and translate them into images using other people as a tool for doing so. Those pictures are about both Them and Me. Those pictures are of Them and about Me.