Jakub Stanek

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Jakub Stanek was born 1988 in Warsaw, Poland. He studied photography at Akademy of photography in Warsaw and phylosophy at University of Warsaw. He has lived and worked in Milan for two years, now he is living in Warsaw again.

In 2009 he began his proffesional career as a freelance photographer.

He has cooperated with major polish magazines like Doc Photo Magazine, Viewworld, pokochajfotografie.pl, Exclusive Magazine, Szeroki Kadr, Rzeczpospolita magazine.

His projects have been showed in The Don Gallery in Milan and in Norblin Factory (Warsaw).

He is dividing his time between assignments around the Europe and long-term personal projects manly in Milan, Warsaw, Spain, England.

Stanek is trying to bring new persepctives to viewers. He explores untold subjects and discovers people whose voices would not ordinarly be heard in the media. During his documentary projects he trying to start intimate dialogue between himself and characters. He also aspires to add layers of visual and emotional information based on cultural knowlage.

He made projects like "Same love", "In my panties", "Be in fashion", "Nomade", "Dream for the dream".

His visual expression is rooted in documentary tradition, but he attains an extreme photographic independence.

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