Marcela Paniak – founder of the Viva Archiva! Foundation dedicated to the creative uses of photographic and film archives, co-run with Miłosz Hermanowicz. Doctor of film art and graduate of Photography at the Film School in Łódź. She teaches archival photography at the same school and at the Warsaw School of Photography. Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers and the Łódź Photographic Society. Participant of individual and collective exhibitions. In her own photographic work, she focuses on topics such as archives, memory, history, identity and photography itself. Under her officially changed name and surname, she run a project exploring the identity of family photography and her own – and, above all, the truth and falsity of their presence. She gained her professional experience at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw. She runs projects on archival photography. A person working for social archives. Author of texts on the social uses of photography. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education. A Polish woman nominated in the international photography festival “Les Rencontres d’Arles”, maintaining contacts with the creative community in Paris and throughout France.
(2024, Warsaw, Poland)
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Founder of the Foundation Viva Archiva! (2024-…).
Doctor of Art (2023).
Lecturer at the Film School in Łódź (2023-…).
Lecturer at the Warsaw School of Photography (2023-…).
Lecturer at the Photography Studies of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (2021-…).
Member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers (2012-…).
Member of the Łódź Photographic Society (2009-…).
Archivist at Di Factory company in Warsaw (2021-2023).
Archivist at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute (2018-2021).
Activist in the network of social archives in Poland (2017-…).
Leader of social projects around photographic archives (2020-…).
Student of doctoral studies at the Film School in Łódź (2016-2020).
Student of photography studies at the Film School in Łódź (2010-2015).
Student of French studies at the University of Łódź (2014-2017).
Scholarship holder of the Minister of Science and Higher Education (2014-2015).
Participant of individual and collective photography presentations in Poland and abroad (2010-…).
Participant of photography publications in Poland and abroad (2010-…).
Author of texts about photography (2020-…).
Co-editor of the photography magazine Ton of the Film School in Łódź (2020-…).
Winner of the Polish final of the French competition “Ma thèse en 180 secondes” (2019).
Nominated at the “Prix Découverte” competition as part of the “Les Renconntres d’Arles” photo festival in France (2013).