Agata Grzybowska

Photographer, photojournalist, video maker, lives and works in Warsaw. Co-founder and member of RATS Agency, ambassador of Leica Camera Poland. She graduated in photography from the Cinematography Department at the Film School in Lodz, and teaches classes on the history of photojournalism at the SWPS University of Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2017 she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage within the "Young Poland" program. Her first photographic book 9 Gates of No Return (2017) won her many awards including Grand Press Photo, MFIA. She won several awards for her photographs documenting political events. Grzybowska travels across the world depicting people in difficult, often life-threatening situations. She has worked in Syria, Uganda, India, Egypt, Romania, and Ukraine. Her work has been shown at Royal Castle in Warsaw, courtyard President’s Palace, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, The Wilson Shaft Gallery in Katowice, The Old Brewery in Poznan, The Galery FF - Forum Of Photography in Lodz, Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest. She is a member of Rats Agency.