About Yarek

Photography is Yarek’s passion since he was a boy, his art since he become a conscious man, and his profession for more than a decade. Born in 1976 in Poland. He has spent a years taking pictures. Yarek’s professional experience includes working as a Picture Editor for Polish newspapers Gazeta Wyborcza and Tygodnik Powszechny, organizing photo exhibitions and participating in Visa pour l'Image. His artistic expression resulted in a portfolio of individual exhibitions organised in Poland and UK.

Currently, Yarek resides in London where he works for several Photo and Modelling Agencies as a freelance photographer. His main interest is placed on portraits, photojournalism and fashion photography. This is because all this areas allow Yarek to focus on people as a centre piece.

There were always different aspects of the human nature that captured his attention, fascination of human relations, physical appearance, and emotions that draw people’s faces. As a great observer, he had a chance to interact with various groups of people. All this helped him to get closer to understanding the importance of human interactions and build a respect for chosen life style of each human. When working as Laboratory Consultant at a Steel Factory, Yarek observed day to day life of his fellows co-workers, their points of view and habits as well as share thoughts with them. Later, when working as Picture Editor in media industry he has been observing a different habits and ambitions. Same, when studying Pedagogy and Philosophy or when was cooperating with cotemporary dancers. All of those people have chosen different life pathways. All of them had a different habits and life experiences but at the end of the day they had some things in common. Things like desire of happiness, good health or acceptance within their own community. All this experiences have opened Yarek's eyes for the essence of humans needs and expectations.