Sandra Mickiewicz is a Polish documentary and portrait photographer who lives and works in London. In 2007, her family immigrated to the United Kingdom, where she started to develop her skills in painting and drawing. She discovered photography at the age of 15. In 2018, Sandra graduated from Middlesex University in London where she studied photography.
Since then, she has used her camera as a tool to communicate with the world. She is drawn into very ordinary and conventional moments in our everyday life, which she documents by exploring portraiture and landscape photography. Sandra mainly works with the communities, as she is really inspired by people and their stories. She loves to work on personal projects which allows her to photograph whatever she wants, starting from acrobats in the small circuses to larger communities and strangers which she finds difficult and really challenging to photograph.
Sandra is fascinated about analogue photography. She mainly shoots on medium format camera and prints her own work in the darkroom. She is influenced by photographers like Alec Soth, Jamie Hawkesworth, Diane Arbus and Marry Ellen Mark.
Exhibitions
Attico Art Centre, Watford, UK, 2015
Beneath, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK, 2017
Middlesex Photographic Portrait Prize, London, UK, 2018
Middlesex Degree Show, London, UK, 2018
Free Range Show, London, UK, 2018
BJP, Portrait of Britain, UK, 2019
Fresh Eyes, Amsterdam, NL. 2020
BJP, Portrait of Humanity, Space, 2020
Art Remedy, Miami, US, 2020-21
Facing Britain, Darmstadt, DE, 2021
Solo show, Space Place, RU, 2021
Facing Britain, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, DE, 2022
Facing Britain, Museum for Photography Kraków, PL, 2022
Just Women, Galerie Joseph, Paris, FR, 2022
Awards
Portrait of Britain, 2019- winner and shortlisted
The Independent Photographer, Open Call, 2019- finalist
Portrait of Humanity, 2020- shortlisted
Portrait of Britain, 2020- shortlisted
Fresh Eyes powered by GUP, 2020- winner
BarTur Photo Award, 2020- shortlisted
Publications
Lupe VI, 2018
Hoxton Mini Press, Portrait of Britain Vol 2, 2019
The Independent Photographer 2019-2020 Talent of the year
Hoxton Mini Press, Portrait of Humanity Vol 2, 2020
Hoxton Mini Press, Portrait of Britain Vol 3, 2020
Fresh Eyes, powered by GUP, 2020
Fotonostrum Magazine, Issue 8, 2020