Wiktor Dabkowski
Strayed
Flirtation Cards
1200 Buried Alive
Selfie
Wonderlad
Crisis
Books
Exhibitions
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Wiktor Dąbkowski (b. 1972, Poland) is a documentary photographer based in Brussels.
His practice moves between political reality and the slow observation of place. He works on editorial assignments for European and international media while developing long-term projects that explore memory, identity, and the traces of history in landscape and everyday life.
Educated in political science and journalism, Dąbkowski approaches photography as a form of inquiry — a way to understand how collective decisions, ideologies and personal histories become visible in space. His visual language is precise and contemplative, rooted in observation rather than narration.
His body of work includs a series of photography eseys such as Wonderland (2012-13), about the structures and rituals of European bureaucracy; 1200 Buried Alive (2012-15), on the history of Polish migration in northern France; Flirtation Cards (2016-18), examining the myth of the sanatorium and social intimacy in post-communist Poland; Selfie (2014), reflecting on power and self-representation within European politics; and Strayed (209-13), exploring Taiwan’s search for identity between tradition, modernity and external pressures.
Dąbkowski’s work has been shown at Photomonth Krakow, Noorderlicht, Format Festival, and the Kolkata International Photography Festival, and presented at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
His photographs have appeared in The Financial Times, Der Spiegel, The Telegraph and The New Yorker.
He is a recipient of the Griffin Art Space Prize and a laureate of the ShowOFF section of Krakow Photomonth.
wiktor@wiktordabkowski.com