Paweł Pierściński

For fifty years he has linked his life with the landscape and photography. He develops three areas of creative activity: as an artist photographer, he actively participates in the exhibition movement and prepares photo albums for publication; as a critic, theoretician and journalist, he justifies the role and place of landscape photography in the contemporary world with his original texts, and as an activist of the social movement of landscape photographers, as an initiator, author and commissioner of exhibitions, and as a creator and animator of artistic groups, he solves issues bordering on the theory and practice of photographic creativity. The creator, animator and organizer of the work of the aesthetic field known as the Kielce Landscape School, founder and long-time president of the Świętokrzyskie District of ZPAF in Kielce. Individual exhibitions (selection): Portrait of the Kielce Land, Warsaw (1962), Structures, Toruń, Kielce, Warsaw (1970-1971) and in 40 cities: Italy (1974-1975), Landscapes, Vilnius, Kaunas (1976), Landscapes with the front planem, Kielce 1986, Wędrówki fotografa, Kielce 1989, China, Świdnica 1989, Colors of the Kielce Land, Kielce 1991, Polnische Landschaft in fotografien von Paweł Pierściński, Leipzig, Miśnia RFN 1996, Les Paysages Polonais dans L'objectif de Paweł Pierściński, Institut Polonais Paris France 1998, Horizon (on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of creative work) - Museum of the History of Photography, Krakow 2005.