2012 Sony World Photography Awards - 3rd Place, Travel, Professional Competition
Jan Brykczyński, (b. 1979), is a photographer in his work often focusing on rural regions of Europe. In 2014 he has published his first book “Boiko” on rural life in Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains. His work from Icelandic farms brought him the Syngenta Photography Award Professional Commission. That allowed him to produce “The Gardener” project on urban farming published by Dawie Lewis Publishing in 2015.
Jan’s work has been exhibited in collective shows in Noorderligcht Gallery, Leica Gallery Warsaw, National Museum in Gdansk, PhotoDoc in Utrecht. He has been awarded grants such as EPEA, European Cultural Fundation, Visegrad Found.
He has published in New York Times International, Der Spiegel and Le Monde. He is a founding partner of Sputnik Photos international collective of photographers that focuses on transformation in Eastern Europe and post-Soviet states.