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J U S T Y N A M I E L N I K I E W I C Z
birth: 1973 , Poland
home base: Tbilisi / Georgia
W O R K E X P E R I E N C E :
-Staff Photographer ( reportage / portrait /news photography)
1999-2000 - Gazeta Wyborcza (main daily national newspaper) affiliated with Agora Photo Agency, publishing in all major Polish papers and magazines
-2000-2001 - Przekrój Magazine (weekly, cir. 80,000)
-Still Photographer (among others: 1998/99 - “The Boot Factory “ documentary / France , dir. Lech Kowalski
-From 2001- freelance photographer , that year started to work on long time photo project ”Walking the Caucasian Chalkline”- based in Tbilisi / Georgia
A W A R D S F O R C A U C A S I A N P R O J E C T :
-2002-Second Prize at Santa Fe Center for Visual Arts Project Competition.2002 for “Walking the Georgian Chalkline /USA
-2002 Honorable Mention (together with a writer Paul Rimple) at Dorotea Lange/ Robert Taylor Prize- for “Walking the Caucasian Chalkline” /USA
-2002-“Young Portfolio 2002”Competition (at Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts)
,Museum purchased photographs for their permanent collection./Japan
-2002 -finalist of Polish Press Photo /exhibition / Poland
-2002-second prize photo competition “Female Life” /Poland
-2002-recived travel grant (for Caucasian Project) from Europen Cultural Foundation/Holland
-2003-finalist / catalogue / exhibition of 7th Agfa Young Photojournalist Award /Germany
-2003-second prize in Newsweek Photoreportage Competition 2003 / http://newsweek.redakcja.pl/newsreportaz/k2m2.asp
-2004-took part in VII photo / Altemus sponsored workshop for 16 young photojournalists from East, Middle Europe, Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine and Caucasus area being only representant of Cauasus
--2005 July – Caucasus Project Presentation during International Photo Festival in Arles –France -that time represented by COSMOS agency
As a freelance regulary cooperates with:
-New York Times
-Eurasianet www.eurasianet.org
-member of women-photographers group EVE
www.evephotographers.org
Worked for humanitarian organizations :
2003 UMCOR/Mission in Georgia/hired to photograph it’s activities in the area
2004 UN/ United Nation / photograph their mission in Georgia/Abkhazia area.
F O R M A L E D U C A T I O N
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland / 1998 Masters - Science of Culture at New Media and Culture Management / Thesies: “Camille Paglia- Mona Lisa with a Moustache Among Art Critics”
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Justyna Mielnikiewicz
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