Assistant cameraman and still photographer. Born and bred in Wrocław, he was employed by the local Studio there in 1973 and, for the first few years, he worked in the laboratory and the photographic technology department. From 1977, however, he gained experience working on film sets, where he became familiar with the equipment and how to use it. Soon, one of the production managers came up to...

(born 1942 in Warsaw, died 2020 in Warsaw). An outstanding still photographer. Graduated from the Cinematographer Faculty at the FilmSchool in Łódź. “I was not always humble, but I was consistent" – she said about herself. “I always regretted that I was anonymous. I had little skills when I took the entrance exams to the film school (professor Jerzy Toeplity led me...

(born 1927 in Drohiczyn, died 1995 inWarsaw). Press photographer and photoreporter. Already during the war, as a teenager, he worked in the photographic studio in Siedlce.  After the war, in Warsaw, he started to cooperate with "Promyk" and "Skrzydlata Polska" magazines. He had not frequented film sets yet, but in 1948 he went to the Film Studio in Łódź and became a...

(born 1930 in Łódź, died 2006 in Łódź) Cinematographer and cameraman. He started working in the film industry in 1956 as camera assistant. He made also stills at that time. He debuted as cameraman in work on the movie “Do widzenia do jutra" in 1960. In years of late, he was sometimes also the author of shots for television films and shorter film forms.   ...

(1918 - 2000), brother of the cinematographers Mikołaj and Sergiusz Sprudin. Photographer and stills photographer who collaborated with the Feature Film Studio in Łódź.   Edward Zajiček in his monumental book “Beyond the Screen” evokes his memories of the Sprudin brothers. One of the recollections goes back to the post-war period: “Those who stayed in...

(born ?, died 1941 in Kremenets) Cinematographer, still photographer and film editor. Brother of a well-known cinematographer Seweryn Steinwurzel. He started working in film industry as still photographer around 1934. Almost from the very beginning of his work, he cooperated with the studio Leo-Film. He was the author of stills especially for films of Michał Waszyński: "Antek policmajster",...

(born 1933, dead 1994 in Warsaw) Film photographer and photoreporter. Associated with the weekly "Film" for more than 35 years, later transformed into a monthly. The first reportages made coming from films set he published already in 1958, but the 60's were his most creative period. Almost all reportages from Polish film sets, festivals or premieres for "Film" were made in that period. When...

(born 1930 in Poznań, died ?) Cameraman and still photographer. Member of the Polish Home Army, fought in the quarter Śródmieście in Warsaw uprising. He began his activity in the film industry in 1954, when he became a full-time employee of a newly established Feature Films Studio in Wrocław. He worked as camera assistant. He used the possibility also to make stills on the set. He...

(born 1932, died 1977) Probably the most famous film photoreporter. Initially, from 1957 on, he published travel reports, but in a year he started to document the work of film makers on the set.  The first movies in production documented by him were "Zamach" by Passendorfer, "Rancho Texas" by Berstowski and "Orzeł" by Buczkowski. Quite soon reportages coming from film sets became his...

(born 1915 in Lublin, died ?) The greatest Polish still photographer of the old generation who is engraved in filmmakers’ memory so strongly that when there is a talk about “stills", Urbanowicz’s name is recalled as the first one. Urbanowicz worked in a photographic studio already before the war. After the war, probably in 1947, he became a full-time still photographer in PP...