Karol Pałka (b.1991 Rabka-Zdrój) | 4298

Karol Pałka is a photographer, documentary film director, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where he earned his doctoral degree in graphic design, as well as the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice and the Wajda School in Warsaw. Academic lecturer, assistant at the Art Education Institute of the Academy of Fine Arts. His photographic projects have been awarded at the Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards, Hasselblad Masters Awards, PDN Photo Annual, New East Photo Prize, among others, and shown at exhibitions in Paris, Sète, Montpellier, London or New York. Scholarship holder of the City of Krakow 2017 and of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2020. One of the authors of the book Red Utopias - a reconciliation of space (2018). His feature-length documentary debut Bucolika had its international premiere at the 75th Locarno Film Festival 2021 and was awarded the main prize in the Polish competition at the 18th Millenium Docs Against Gravity Festival 2021.