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Max Miechowski is a British photographer based in London. His projects, which centre on themes of community and connection, have been exhibited widely in places such as Paris Photo Fair, Photo London, Peckham 24 and The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.

 

Miechowski received the Photo London / Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2022, for his solo exhibition of ‘Land Loss’, at Somerset House. He has also been recognised by the Palm Photo Prize, twice as a finalist and once as the recipient of the People’s Choice Award. He has had consecutive winning images in the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain,  has been awarded LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Award, and has been featured in the Creative Review Photography Annual in 2018 and 2020. He has been featured in and commissioned by a wide variety of publications and clients including The Guardian, The New York Times, It’s Nice That, M Magazine, British Journal of Photography, and The Financial Times.

CONTACT

Max Miechowski

+44 (0) 7984345671
info@maxmiechowski.com
IG: @maxmiechowski

GALLERY

Open Doors Gallery

+44 (0) 7769922824
tom@opendoors.gallery
www.opendoors.gallery

COMMISSIONS

Rosie Wadey, Companion

+44 (0) 7791450047
rosie@companion.fyi
www.companion.fyi

Awards

2022

Photo London / Nikon Emerging Photographer

 

2021

Palm Photo Prize – Finalist

 

2020

Creative Review – Honourable Mention

Palm Photo Prize – Shortlisted Photographer

 

2019

Lensculture – Emerging Talent

Portrait of Britain – Winning Image

Offspring Portfolio Prize – First Place

 

2018

Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize – Exhibited Photographer

Portrait of Britain – Winning Image

Palm Photo Prize – People’s Choice Award Winner

Exhibitions

2023

Royal Photographic Society, IPE 164 – Royal Photographic Society, Bristol

Open Doors, Group Exhibition – Koko Camden, London

 

2022

Photo London, Solo Booth – Somerset House, London

RA Summer Exhibition – Royal Academy of Arts, London

Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, NPG – Cromwell Place, London

Open Doors, Group Exhibition – 73 Rivington Street, London

Farringdon Street, Outdoor Exhibition – Farringdon Street, London

 

2021

NOUA, Group Exhibition – NOUA, Bodo, Norway

Photo Vogue Festival, Group Projection – BASE Milano, Italy

Open Doors Group Exhibition – AAF, Battersea Park, London

Palm Photo Prize, Group Exhibition – 1014 Gallery, London

 

2020

A Portrait Of Newham, Solo Exhibition – 1000 Dockside, London

 

2019

A Big Fat Sky, Offspring Portfolio Prize – ThePrintSpace, London

LensCulture Emerging Talent – Galerie Joseph, Paris Photo, Paris

Portrait of Britain – National Exhibition, UK

Peckham 24 – Copeland Gallery, Photo London, London

 

2018

Burgess Park, Solo Exhibition – ThePrintSpace, London

Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize – National Portrait Gallery, London

Portrait of Britain – National Exhibition

Palm Photo Prize – House of Vans, London

Portrait Salon – Peckham Levels, London

Features / Press

2022

British Journal of Photography – Issue 7910: Time & Community

This Pleasant Land – Hoxton Mini Press

Photo London – Emerging Photographer Award

Booooooom – 64 x 64

AnOther Magazine – Land Loss

The Guardian – Land Loss

Re-Edition – Best of Photo London

Booooooom – Land Loss

It’s Nice That – Land Loss

The Independent Photography – Land Loss

 

2021

Fisheye Photo Review 2021.22

IGNANT – Portfolio

Creative Review – Travel Photography

AND 2021 – Then There Was Us Annual

 

2020

C41 Magazine – A Big Fat Sky

Creative Review – A Big Fat Sky

WÜL Magazine – Why We Create

It’s Nice That – A Big Fat Sky

Gestalten Journal – The Intimacy of Forgotten Coastal Cultures

British Journal of Photography – A Big Fat Sky: Max Miechowski’s document of the UK’s East Coast

British Journal of Photography – Issue 7897, Volume 166

The Guardian – A Big Fat Sky

The Observer – The Big Picture: A Big Fat Sky

The Royal Photographic Society Journal Volume 160 – Burgess Park

Fisheye Magazine – Memories of Summer

British Journal of Photography – Picture This: Magic

Booooooom – Photographer Spotlight

Paper Journal Magazine – Looking Onwards

Magnum Photos – Images of Solidarity and Community in Times of COVID-19

Vogue Italia – When I Becomes We

Diversions, M&C Saatchi Little Stories – Burgess Park

 

2019

De Volkskrant – Burgess Park

Financial Times: Snapshot – A Big Fat Sky

The Guardian – LensCulture Emerging Talent

LensCulture – Emerging Talent Winner

Metal Magazine – ‘Max Miechowski, A poem to diversity’

Paper Journal Magazine – Instagram Takeover

BBC News – Portrait of Britain

The Guardian – Portrait of Britain

British Journal of Photography – Portrait of Britain: Winning Portrait

British Journal of Photography – ‘Portrait of Britain: Max Miechowski On Searching For Subjects’

Offspring Photo Meet 2019 – Presents: Burgess Park

Lecture In Progress – Creative Lives Interview

The Art Newspaper – Peckham 24

 

2018

Creative Review Photography Annual – ‘Wilderness On Film’, commissioned by Fanatic

The Guardian – ‘Burgess Park: a south-east London community’

It’s Nice That – ‘Burgess Park – Max Miechowski’s sun-drenched photos reveal the strength of diverse communities’

It’s Nice That – ‘Max Miechowski’s adept observations of light create honest and intimate portraits’

Aint-Bad – ‘Unfolding, Slowly.’

The Guardian – Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize Highlights

It’s Nice That – ‘Sian Davey, Danny North, Max Miechowski and Jenna Foxton’s beautiful joint series of Wilderness Festival’

Site Design: Dan Bown / Until Now

All Images © Max Miechowski 2021

The British east coast is the fastest eroding coastline in Europe. Landslides and rising sea levels eat away at the soft foundations on which life here has been built. I expected to find storms, rough seas, ruined houses falling into the waves. A sense of urgency from the people living on the edge of a landscape, where entire towns have been lost to the North Sea. Instead, the land felt still, the waters were calm, and time moved slowly.

Every time I return, however, something has changed. Cracks creep through roads that once led to villages, flowers grow in places where homes used to be. Traces of what has gone remind us of what is to come. The morning sun reveals what progress the sea has made in the night. Sure and steady. I know that, before long, this place will come to nothing, yet it seems impossible to imagine. I went there often to watch it change, and make pictures before it does.

Families have lived on the cliffs for generations, never expecting the sea to finally reach their door. Others just moved there, fixing up a place that they knew would soon disappear. It was worth it, they’d say, to see the sunrise and hear the birds and the waves. If only for a few more years. There is something hypnotic about this place – rhythms seem to stand outside of human time. We’re as temporary as the cliffs. The thought unsettles me yet I can understand why, despite all precariousness, people would want to make a home here, between the land and sky, and watch as the sea edges closer.