KAT PIWECKA

International celebrity photographer
and travel journalist 

An economist by education, a photographer by profession and a traveller by passion. 
She runs her own studio Kat Piwecka Photography in Poznań / Poland. In 2009 she started her photographing business with family photography. The last years she was mostly occupied with business and commercial photography. In private photoshoots she specializes in portrait, glamour and sensual photography as well as in showing emotions and close relations between people.  
She takes a special interest in social photography. She strongly believes her mission as a photographer is to show with a picture important issues and problems affecting other people, to get people used to those things, which are not talked about enough. She is the author of the controversial exhibition of the portraits of breast cancer survivors called “The Beauty and The Breast” which was displayed at the European Parliament in Brussels. 
But her real passion is travelling and travel photography. In years 2014-2020 she shared her impressions on travel blog www.travelphotographer.pl. As a travel journalist she worked for polish and portuguese magazines: Business Insider Poland, Onet.pl, Oh!Me, Imperium Kobiet, Law Business Quality, ONTV and SAPO.PT. Her exhibition “A Travelling Photographer” was displayed in the terminals of polish airports. Because she found her second home in Portugal, in 2020 she published her first travel book – a photo album “In Love With Portugal” which is sold all over the world.  The book was followed by the photo exhibition of the most beautiful places to visit in Portugal. 
At the turn of the year 2019 and 2020, she celebrated 10 years of her artistic work with her exhibition #photographedbyKatPiwecka. On that occasion a big event with celebrities and media was organized in Warsaw. Continuing the celebration, the first album with portraits of celebrities and inspiring people PORTRAITS 2020 was also published in 2020. 
As an expert with 15 years of experience, she supports young photographers on workshops and individual consulting. She is an author of the first in Poland coursebook on marketing for photographers. She also created the first in Poland university course on business and marketing for photographers. 
She is a happy wife and mother of two children, four cats and one dog. Because of her love and empathy for animals, she has been vegan almost all life. She hasn’t been drinking alcohol for a decade and lives a very healthy lifestyle. She is deeply involved in finding eco solutions in everyday life. She is a horrible bookoholic with a big interest in self development. She is also addicted to yoga and meditation and love to run, bike and swim. She is absolutely passionate about life and completely dedicated to her photographing profession. 
She shares her business and private life between Poland and Portugal. She speaks Polish, English, Portuguese and German. 

Everywhere I look, I see the light and the shadow. Always together. The shadow follows every gleam of light. I accept all the shadows that I see. I don’t fight with the shadows trying to deliver the perfect lighting. I let the shadow stay in my pictures in the same way as I welcome the light. I take all my photographs with the light and the shadow I already have.

While my travel photography is always full of colours, I totally don’t need the colour in photographing people. I can say that I see the world in colours and I see the people in black and white. In portraiture I focus on the eyes (which are the windows of the soul), emotions, smile, the gaze, the expressions, the feelings. The issue is to stay as close as possible with my camera. That is why all my portraits are close-up compositions with the eyes on the foreground. My style is simplicity and minimalism both with the composition and the lighting. I use the natural daylight caught in the shadow area while taking photos outside and the same natural daylight from the window while taking photos inside. Very rarely I need a little help from the continuous lighting.

Every photoshoot is a meeting. It’s a beautiful time of getting to know eachother, talking about life, exchanging experiences and most of all lots of laughs and good energy. It is simply a time of meeting another human being and having a life talk – and the photoshoot itself is always secondary, the photographs are being taken in between. What you can see on the portrait is the unique connection developed between a photographer and a model. I am so greatful to have the opportunity to meet so many wonderful and inspiring people in my work.

Kat Piwecka

KAT PIWECKA – fotografka gwiazd i dziennikarka podróżnicza 

Od 2009 roku prowadzi Studio Katarzyna Piwecka Fotografia w Poznaniu. Specjalizuje się w portrecie. Jej charakterystyczny styl fotografii – proste i minimalistyczne czarnobiałe, bliskie kadry ukazujące emocje i relacje zdobyły wielkie uznanie wśród gwiazd. Z okazji 10-lecia twórczości wydała ekskluzywny album z portretami gwiazd i inspirujących osobistości PORTRAITS 2020, któremu towarzyszyła wystawa portretów znanych kobiet #photographedbyKatPiwecka. Jako dziennikarz podróżniczy współpracowała z wieloma polskimi redakcjami – Onet.pl, Business Insider Polska, Oh!Me, Imperium Kobiet, Law Business Quality oraz z portugalskim SAPO.PT. Wiele lat temu znalazła swój drugi dom w Portugalii, co zaowocowało wydaniem albumu fotograficznego IN LOVE WITH PORTUGAL, który jest sprzedawany na całym świecie. Jako ekspert w dziedzinie fotografii, wspiera młodych fotografów na autorskich warsztatach fotograficznych oraz indywidualnych konsultacjach. Organizuje także międzynarodowe warsztaty fotograficzne w Portugalii. Jest autorką pierwszego na rynku polskim podręcznika marketingu dla fotografów “Od fotografki rodzinnej do fotografki gwiazd – sekret mojego sukcesu” oraz twórcą i opiekunem merytorycznym kierunku studiów podyplomowych Biznes i Marketing Fotografa na Uniwersytecie Merito. Prywatnie szczęśliwa żona i mama dwójki nastolatków, czterech kotów i jednego pieska. Wegetarianka uzależniona od codziennej praktyki jogi i medytacji. Absolutna pasjonatka życia i pracy. 

MOJA MISJA 
– Dawać ludziom wspaniałe przeżycie i super energię podczas sesji oraz piękną pamiątkę na całe życie w postaci zdjęć.
– Dzielić się pięknem tego świata w artykułach i książkach podróżniczych.
– Wykorzystując wrażliwość na problemy innych ludzi, poruszać za pomocą zdjęć ważne tematy społeczne.
– Przekazywać swoje doświadczenie i inspirować innych fotografów do tworzenia i wiary w swoją wartość.