Photo: Monika Cichoszewska
Biography
Born in Poland in 1973, Roland studied architecture at the Wroclaw University of Technology and later at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He did not go on to pursue a career in architecture, but instead decided to devote his life to his greatest passion – photography. At one time he was also active in the music industry, but he eventually drifted away from this ambition and settled on graphic design.
The search for inspiration led him to a fascination with photography, which remains the key area of his interest and efforts to this day; both professional and otherwise.
Roland treats photography as a purely esthetic experience. His black and white photographs are characterized by a thoroughly considered sense of composition and proportion, as well as a painter's approach to light. His photographs are influenced by classic photography, and contain echoes of fashion photography and subtle hints of pop culture. Many of his photographs possess a hypnotic element of tasteful eroticism, which naturally draws the viewer into an intimate imaginary world.
His photos have appeared on the covers of music albums and in music press, for example in "Metal Hammer", "Tylko Rock", "Top Guitar", "Free Colours", in magazines “Playboy”, “Wprost”, "Musli Magazine", "Popcorn", "Audio", "Dobre Wnętrze", "Estrada & Studio", photographic magazines "Aparaty i fotografia cyfrowa",
as well as in nation-wide newspapers, such as "Gazeta Wyborcza", "Polityka" and "Metro".
Web: Vogue.it, GetInspiredMagazine.com, StatusMagazine, LifeStyleMirror, Up-Her Magazine, Musli Magazine
Photo: Ewa Nowak
Group Exhibitions
2024 - Festiwal Przygody Wanoga, Wejcherowo, PL
2024 - Festiwal “Swiatłosila”, ECS, Gdansk, PL
2024 - Festiwal “Z Bliska” Wroclaw, PL
2024 - Galeria Atrium, Legnica, PL
2024 - Galeria Bezdomna, Concordia, Wroclaw, PL
2023 - Galeria BWA, Legnica PL
2023 - Stara Kopalnia, Wałbrzych, PL
2020 - Zamek Książ, Wałbrzych, PL
2020 - Galeria Foto-gen, Wroclaw, PL
2018 - Passion For Freedom Book Launch Party, The Untitled Space Gallery, New York, USA
2018 - Passion For Freedom Art Festival, La Galleria Pall Mall, London, UK
2018 - Berlin OpenAirGallery - DE
2018 - ARTMUC Kunstfestival, Deutsches Museum, Munich, DE
2015 - Galeria AB, Cracow, PL
2014 - Viva Photo Awards, National Stadium, Warsaw, PL
2013 - "Rytual - Ostatnia noc szamanów", Wroclaw, PL
2012 - Festiwal Podwodny Wroclaw, PL
2011 - Passion For Freedom Art Festival, London, UK
2009 - "Sky above us" Wroclaw University, PL
2009 - "Noc Kobiet" Kalambur, Wroclaw, PL
2009 - "Over the Bridge" Galeria Pauza, Cracow, PL
Individual Exhibition
2024 - Galeria ZPAF, Wroclaw, PL
2022 - Oficyna, Zabrze, PL
2022 - Kasza i Pasza, Wroclaw, PL
2021 - Galeria 4ARTE, Częstochowa, PL
2021 - Ukryte Miejsce, Sopot.PL
2021 - Swiety Spokoj, Poznan, PL
2021 - Mleczarnia, Wroclaw, PL
2021 - Baza, Kraków, PL
2021 - Stara Przepompownia, Ostrów Wlkp. PL
2020 - No Problem, Warsaw, PL
2020 - Club der polnischen Versager, Berlin, DE
2019 - Centrum Zarządzania Światem, Warszawa, PL
2019 - Impart, Wroclaw, PL
2019 - Vege is the new sexy, Puza, Cracow, PL
2018 - Vege is the new sexy, DZiK, Warsaw, PL
2018 - Vege is the new sexy, Recepcja, Wroclaw, PL
2017 - "Wokalistki Wroclawia" - Plac Solny, Wroclaw, PL
2017 - "Kobiet Noc" - Galeria Miejska, Swidnica, PL
2015 - "Okon na Dziko" - Galeria Zywa, Warsaw, PL
2015 - "Indecision" - Photomuseum Görlitz, DE
2015 - "Anywhere but Here" - art.endart - Berlin, DE
2015 - "Diamond Kiss of Rose" - Idea Place, Wroclaw, PL
2015 - "Nightmare on Love Street" - Galeria AMI, Wroclaw, PL
2015 - "Porno Mesaliance" - Le Boudoir, Prague, CZ
2015 - "Okon Na Dziko" Galeria Jadalnia, Wroclaw, PL
2015 - "Porno Mesaliance" Dum Narodnostnich Men., Prague, CZ
2015 - "Nieskonczonosc minus jeden" CK Agora, Wroclaw, PL
2014 - "Rozterki" Galeria Pod Plafonem, Wroclaw, PL
2014 - "Rozterki" Bibilioteka Miejska, Wroclaw, PL
2014 - "Meskie Ciacho" Kalambur, Wroclaw, PL
Awards
Viva Photo Awards 2014 - Category: Portrait
Playboy Photoerotica 2014 - III Prize
Playboy Photoerotica 2016 - III Prize
Worked for
// Teatr Polski we Wroclawiu // EMI Music Polska // KFC // Park Wodny Kraków // Avant Art Festival // WrocLove Design Festival // HP Polska // Lion Stage // AirBnB // Apanet // Halls // Vantage Development // Teatr MatejStudio // Comfort Plus // Teatr Lubuski w Zielonej Górze // Magazyn "Fotografia i Aparaty cyfrowe" // Magazyn "Dobre Wnętrza" // Wasio Dental Depot //
IT Kontrakt // Lokaah // Remediar // Profescapital // RKB // Kato Labs // Tauron // Dental City // DuoMed // SM Gawra // Reggae Dub Festiwal // Izrael // Zebra // Igor Boxx // Habakuk // Shadok // Synaptine // Neony // Lion Vibrations // Jaywalk // OCN // Skalpel // Phall Fatale // POTH //