Ela Polkowska (Parallel Voices)

Photographer, living in Warsaw, Poland. Interested in documenting people, places and objects on the margins of everyday life and subjects relegated from the dominant public memory or hidden from consciousness.

Studied Art History and Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 2013 graduated from the Academy of Photography in Warsaw. From 2013 to June 2014 partcipated in the Mentorship Programme by Sputnik Photos, under the mentorship of Rafał Milach. From 2015 to 2019 student of photography at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic. Participant of the 2nd cycle of PARALLEL – European Photo based Platform (2018-2019).