Lukasz Trzcinski, born in 1975 in Krakow, Poland. For over 15 years he worked as a documentary photographer in over 40 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Russia and the Middle East. He is an award winner of the ‘Pictures of the Year International’ competition. Repeatedly awarded in the Polish Press Photography Contest, his photographs have twice won the title of Photo of the Year (1999, 2000). Scholarship holder from The National Centre for Culture in Warsaw in the young artists’ programme – Young Poland. Member of the curator board of the Photomonth festival in Krakow. Until recently interested in Central and Eastern Europe. His key works comprise essays from practically all countries from the former Eastern Bloc. From the outset, this project is stylistically eclectic, as Trzcinski draws his styles for the topics from the point of view that there is no one language which is possible of describing everything. Realised over the course of ten years, Trzcinski simultaneously is an evolutionary mirror image of the author himself – from the classical aesthetics aimed at registering symbolic images, to the intervention of photographing certain situations and a fascination for amateur photography which he recreates through his lens. Today he still believes that reality is merely a starting point – he definitely prefers to transform it.