A black-and-white photo of a man with short hair, wearing a textured long-sleeve shirt, looking seriously with a neutral background.

Karol Jaworowski

Karol Jaworowski is a visual artist working across photography, installation, painting, and printmaking. Drawn to the stark precision of black and white and the rawness of alternative photographic processes, his work probes memory, place, and the quiet erosion of the familiar.

Since 2016, Warsaw has been more than a backdrop—it has been a living archive of vanishing spaces and emergent rhythms. What moved him most was the pace of these changes: the disappearance of basic places, the sudden rise of others. In his words, the city is not just a space, but information—a repository of memories that appear and fade. His ongoing series is driven by the impulse to capture these fleeting fragments, to pin down what slips away too quickly to hold.

Jaworowski earned his doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied under Professor Andrzej Węcławski. He also graduated from the Higher School of Photography and completed studies with the Association of Polish Art Photographers.

He has exhibited in solo and collective shows, presenting works that refuse to merely document. Instead, they linger like residues—traces of a city that won’t stay still, and a mind trying to remember what mattered.