Bogdan Konopka

Bogdan Konopka (23 July 1953 — 19 May 2019) was a Polish photographer and art critic, who began taking photographs in the mid-1970s. Born in Dynów, Poland he moved to France in 1989. In 1998 he was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville de Vevey in the European Photo Competition. Receiver of numerous scholarships e.g. Pro Helvetia (Switzerland 1993), the City of Paris (1994), the French Embassy in Beijing (2005), the French Cultural Institute in Romania and Belarus (in 2000 and 2004). Author of the famous exhibition "Paris en gris" ("Grey Paris") (2000) at the Polish Institute in Paris and "The Invisible City" (2003) at the Centre Pompidou. Bogdan Konopka preferred to work primarily on large format view camera.