Piotr Powietrzynski

Piotr Powietrzyński discovered his passion and talent for photography while working in the darkroom during his college years in native Poland. Soon after he’d received Master of Science degree in Computer Science, he put the diploma in a drawer and decided to pursue career in arts. In 1990, he moved to the capital of photography New York City, where he lives until today. Piotr has had numerous exhibitions and press publications in the U.S. and abroad. Hundreds of his images were offered by major stock agencies: Getty Images, Alamy Images, and AGEfotostock. He is a recipient of numerous awards, e.g. a three-time winner of Hasselblad Super Circuit, Austria, a two-time winner of Mazda Photo Contest, Japan, and an awardee of International Photography Award, Los Angeles. Powietrzyński’s scientific background and his appreciation of precise planning can be felt in his photos, instantly recognizable by their elegant, well-thought-out composition. In some of his works he utilized painstaking collage technique (recently – the Photoshop). The professionals will appreciate Piotr’s technical perfection achieved by using the best available optics and cameras, and by long hours of work in an atelier, in a darkroom, and in front of a computer screen. Powietrzyński doesn’t care to catch the moment, to be in the middle of the action. Rather, his photos are well thought-out and carefully composed illustrations of some vague ideas. His images seem to be pensive and calm, and yet some of them have traces of melancholy and uneasiness.