Krzysztof Candrowicz
Poland
Krzysztof Candrowicz is an interdisciplinary curator, sociologist, researcher, project facilitator, and activist. Co-founder and member of the Foundation of Visual Education and Fotofestiwal in Lodz, he is also the former director of the Art Factory and Lodz Art Center (Poland). From 2013 to 2018, he worked as artistic director of the Triennial of Photography in Hamburg (Germany), and from 2018 to 2024, Candrowicz worked as guest curator and collaborator of the Ci.CLO Porto Biennale (Portugal). Candrowicz works internationally as a guest curator and visiting lecturer in numerous organisations, museums, schools, and festivals in Europe.
He has been a member of the jury of various projects and art prizes, including the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award (Arles, France), the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, (London, UK), the Prix Pictet (London, UK), the Historical Book Award, and the Author Book Award (Arles, France), and the Robert Capa Award (Budapest, Hungary).
Besides being active in visual arts, his interests are rooted in philosophy, social science, anthropology, ecology, astronomy, and natural science. Most of the projects, workshops and exhibitions he is involved in are touching the fields of social and environmental equity. For the last two decades his curatorial focus is photography, activism and visual art in the active role of responding to ongoing planetary crises.
World Press Photo Involvement:
2026 World Press Photo Contest jury member
Krzysztof Candrowicz on Social Media:
Instagram: @krisceee
