About the author
Paweł Mazur
A graduate of political science at the Jagiellonian University, photographer and architecture enthusiast, author of photographs for dozens of publications on the architecture of Krakow, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Ukraine, Romania, the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Israel. Two-time recipient of a scholarship from the Minister of Culture (2022, 2025).
Author of photographs for over twenty albums and books, as well as exhibitions often related to them, including: “Jože Plečnik. Architect and Visionary‘, ’Romania. Space, Art, Culture‘, ’The Third City of Galicia. Stanisławów and its Architecture‘, ’From the Holy Land to Poland – The History of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre‘, ’Spaces of Light” (Israel), ‘Modern Lviv’, ‘A Thousand Treasures of Krakow, Krakow. History and Art’, ‘The Armenian Cathedral in Lviv and its Creators’, ‘Modernism, Socialist Realism, Socialist Modernism, Postmodernism. A Guide to 20th-Century Architecture in Krakow’, ‘Encyclopaedia of Krakow’, “Socialist Modernism. Architecture in Central Europe during the Cold War‘, ’City, Architecture, Modernism – Public buildings of the interwar period in Lviv‘ (Berlin), ’The Warsaw Ghetto. A Place” and others. Creator of photographic websites on architecture: postmodernism.eu (architecture of the 1980s and the period of transformation in Poland), architekturakrakowa.pl (post-war modernism) and bankfoto.info (8,000 photographs of Polish and European architecture).
While working on his photography projects, he has collaborated with numerous publishing houses and cultural institutions, including BOSZ, ZNAK, Sejm Publishing House, College of Eastern Europe, BEW Photo, Institute of Architecture, Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Polonika Institute, Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Museum in Krakow, International Cultural Centre, Krakow Festival Office, Institute of Literature, Bauhaus Kooperation, Docomomo International and others.
Since 2024, he has been working on a photographic project on postmodern architecture and transformation in Poland and Central European countries.
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