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Wojciech Zawadzki (1953-2017) - He has practiced photography since the 1970s. He was instrumental in the constitution of the "elementary photography" trend (1970s) and "pure photography" (1980s). Member of the Union of Polish Artists Photographers. Curator of the Gallery "Corridor" of the Jelenia Góra Cen- trum of Culture. Lecturer in photography at the Higher School of Photography in Warsaw, Zielona Gora, manager and lecturer at the Higher School of Photography in Jelenia Gora, now a two-year stu- dium called "Jeleniogórska Szkoła Fotografii". He has also lectured abroad, including in Denmark. Zawadzki has exhibited at home and abroad. Between 1998 and 2008, he realized two major author's exhibitions "My America" and "Olszewskiego 11", which were presented in the most important galleries in Poland. His photographs are in the collections of the Art Museum in Lodz, the National Museum in Wroclaw, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Hunfeld (Germany), the Silesian Collection of Contemporary Art. Died June 22, 2017 in Jelenia Gora. We have written about his photography in "Quarterly Photography" many times (we suggest using the search engine on the home page, and most recently HERE.