Tadeusz Kubiak

(born 1930, died 2004). Photographer and photoreporter. During the war, he fought as a member of a Polish Home Army squad in the Pruszków region. Years later in London, he was awarded for his war-time merits with the Polish Home Army Silver Cross.

When in army, he became interested in photography: on the turn of the 40's and 50's, serving his duty in an aviation unit, he went to a photographic department. After retiring, in 1955, he became a photoreporter of the Central Photographic Agency. In 1957, he was a co-founder of a film and TV weekly, "Ekran". Admittedly, for some time he combined the work at CPA and "Ekran", but quite soon he decided to only make photographs for the weekly.  Film photoreportages became his specialty. During his twenty-year long cooperation with "Ekran", he published hundreds of them. He also made shots on the sets of TV Theatre and accompanied filmmakers during festivals. After the tragic death of Zbigniew Cybulski in 1967, he organised an exhibition of his photographs devoted to the works of the actor.

In December 1969, Kubiak was fired from "Ekran", and he abandoned film photography entirely. He started to work with Warsaw theatres: Syrena, Kwadrat and Teatr na Woli, making stills of performances. He was also an author of photographs on records of, among others, Anna Jantar, Iga Cembrzyńska, Bohdan Łazuka, Trubadurzy, Czerwone Gitary, and No-to-co. At the 1^st National Contest of Press Photography he was awarded Grand Prix for the photoreportage about Łowicz fire. Several times, he was also a laureate of the award of "Przekrój" weekly for the cover of the year¹. In 2010, the National Film Archive bought the collection of film-related negatives by Tadeusz Kubiak.

Piotr Śmiałowski

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  Tadeusz Kubiak's stamp from 1960s