Photographer and theoretician of photography with a diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Paris (2001), where he also obtained a doctoral degree in aesthetics, art sciences and art technology, based on the dissertation entitled Esthétique, éthique & politique. La photographie polonaise et l'État de Guerre 1980-89 (Aesthetics, ethics and politics. Polish photography and martial law. 1980-1989) written under the supervision of Prof. François Soulages (2014). Currently his scholarly interest focuses on the use of machine learning in the humanities.
Since 2014 he has lived in Krakow, where he works as a photographer, specializing in photography of the works of art. In his photographic documentation used as a tool for historical and artistic analysis, he strives for precision while avoiding secondary transformations and digital interference in photographic images at the post-production stage. He has been involved in the of grants conducted by the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University. In the Architecture and equipment of the Dominican friary complex in Krakow – from the first half of the 13th century to modern times project, he took tens of thousands of photographs of works of architecture, painting, sculpture and artistic crafts. As part of the grant “The medieval stained glass in Poland”, he photographed almost all medieval stained glass preserved in Poland, and for the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he has prepared photographic documentation for Dr Christina Wais-Wolf’s Corpus Vitrearum – Medieval & Modern Stained Glass in Austria (New Frontiers Program). He collaborated with the Istituto Internazionale per le Ricerche di Storia dell’Arte (IRSA), the National Museum in Krakow, the International Cultural Centre in Krakow, and the Royal Castle in Warsaw. His photographs illustrate the first Polish volume in the series of Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (2018), which received the Prof. Jerzy Łoziński prize awarded for documentary works and surveys. His photographs were published e.g. in Kaiser Karl IV. 1316–2016, Prague, 2016; Hans von Kulmbach and his works for Krakow. Master and Catherine, Kraków, 2018; A thousand treasures of Krakow. History and art, Krakow, 2018; The World of the Polish Vasa, Warsaw, 2019; Treasures of the Piast Dynasty, Kraków, 2020; S. Góra, Ewa Kierska. Melancholy painter, Kraków, 2020; D. Horzela, A Miracle of Light. Medieval stained glass in Poland, Kraków, 2020.
In addition to photography and its processing, he is involved in the digitization of photographic archives, e.g. within the programme: Digitization of photographic negatives of A. Studzinski OP from the Archive of the Polish Dominican Province. He shares his experience with the younger generation, conducting documentary photography classes for students of the Protection of Cultural Property studies at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University.