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Piotr Jaxa SCS
a cinematographer and photographer, was born in Poland and has been living in Switzerland since 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and has worked as director of photography on fiction and documentary films worldwide (his work has been selected for festivals such as Cannes, Mannheim, Krakow, Los Angeles and Berlin).
Simultaneously he has been active as a freelance photographer, specializing in film still and editorial photography and publishing in various media in Europe, USA and Japan. Following his photographic collaboration with Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of the film trilogy "Blue", "White" and "Red", he had prepared an exhibition "Remembering Krzysztof" which has been touring the world since 1994. He is as well an author of photo books: "L'esprit de Geneve" (1988), "Oh! Barcelone" (1992) and "Poschiavo, un mondo di valle" (1998).
Since 1995 Piotr Jaxa has been working on the new book and exhibition project "Cinematographers" - a collection of portraits of directors of photography around the world (so far he has photographed 111 artists from 23 countries on 4 continents). |
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- Film/Motion Picture Production
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Portrait Film/Motion Picture Production
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Piotr Jaxa SCS
a cinematographer and photographer, was born in Poland and has been living in Switzerland since 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and has worked as director of photography on fiction and documentary films worldwide (his work has been selected for festivals such as Cannes, Mannheim, Krakow, Los Angeles and Berlin).
Simultaneously he has been active as a freelance photographer, specializing in film still and editorial photography and publishing in various media in Europe, USA and Japan. Following his photographic collaboration with Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of the film trilogy "Blue", "White" and "Red", he had prepared an exhibition "Remembering Krzysztof" which has been touring the world since 1994. He is as well an author of photo books: "L'esprit de Geneve" (1988), "Oh! Barcelone" (1992) and "Poschiavo, un mondo di valle" (1998).
Since 1995 Piotr Jaxa has been working on the new book and exhibition project "Cinematographers" - a collection of portraits of directors of photography around the world (so far he has photographed 111 artists from 23 countries on 4 continents).
Switzerland Zurich Geneva Romainmotier Film Portrait Kieslowski Alps Cinematographer Still
