{"id":19096,"date":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fujifilmnxtc.wpenginepowered.com\/x-photographers\/tomek-sikora\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:00:00","slug":"tomek-sikora","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/photographers\/tomek-sikora\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomek Sikora"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xphotographerspost__detail_data_motto_texts motto_texts\">\n<p>Tomek Sikora was born in 1948 in Warsaw, Poland, of a painter mother and a sculptor father. In his twenties he travelled to Paris where he took seriously to photography.<br \/>\nAfter coming back to Poland in 1971 he worked as a photojournalist for the next ten years and in the meantime cooperated with major Polish graphic designers in creating film and theatre posters.<br \/>\nIn 1979 he realised two big projects: \u201eAlbum\u201d and \u201eAlice in Wonderland\u201d. They were two photographic series of surreal vision of the world and in 1980 were presented at the Biennale de Jeunesse in Paris at The Museum of Modern Art in the Pompidou Centre. From then on Tomek started exhibiting extensively in Europe and USA. In 1982 he migrates to Australia and conducts workshops in photography at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Then he establishes a studio of advertising photography there and continues his activity in the area of art photography.<br \/>\nIn 1986 Tomek starts travelling and working extensively all over the world. Since 1996 he divided his life between Poland and Australia. He currently lives back in Warsaw. He has been frequently awarded for creativity in photography. He regularly publishes limited editions of his author\u2019s books (55) and continues to exhibit extensively all over the world.<br \/>\nSince 1999 he has been working on his project Transparency of Things which has been exhibited seven times and is continuously enriched with new works. The very first exhibition of this project took place at the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Warsaw.<br \/>\nIn 2001, together with Andrzej \u015awietlik, Tomek Sikora created Homeless Gallery which promotes independent photography in many countries.<br \/>\nSince 2002 he teaches at various photographic colleges in Warsaw.<br \/>\nSince 2006 he has created a series called \u201cMoving Photography\u201d, short films based on animated photography. Three series have been made so far:\u201c The Eggman \u201c, \u201cThe Woman\u201c and \u201c Heard in Silence \u201c.<br \/>\nIn the autumn of 2008 Znak publishing house published a photographic album \u201c\u015awiat\u0142oczu\u0142y\u201c (Light Sensitive) comprising hundreds of photographs and numerous anecdotes by Tomek Sikora related to his photographic career.<br \/>\nThe years 2009 \u2013 2010 are devoted to his work on the latest album \u201cChopin. The composer\u2019s moods in photographic images of Tomek Sikora\u201c in which he shows the Poland of Chopin&#8217;s dreams.<br \/>\nIn 2011 Tomek Sikora publishes the following albums: \u201c M\u0119skie Granie \u201d, \u201c Album \u201d and \u201c Genius Loci \u201d as well as 365 page calendar entitled \u201c Facial Collection \u201d and a children\u2019s book \u201c Bajkonurki \u201d which has been created by a group of twelve photographers during a workshop.<br \/>\nIn 2012 he completed a 390 paged album entitled \u201c213 km under Paris Streets\u201d after 7 years of work. His latest projects in 2014 are the albums \u201cFour Seasons\u201d, \u201cA Year Passed\u201d and \u201cIstanbul \u2013 Street Photography\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19097,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","category":[1006,1888,6396,9434],"post_tag":[],"fujifilm_title":[12508],"class_list":["post-19096","photographer","type-photographer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cameras","category-discontinued-models","category-x-t3","category-x30","title-photographer"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 05:24:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographer\/19096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/photographer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"title","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fujifilm-x.com\/en-sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/fujifilm_title?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}