Biography
Patryk Jaracz is a documentary photographer born in 1990 in Poland. His work is focused on human rights and abuses of those rights, specifically in the region of Eastern Europe. While reporting on the subject during the 2020 fraudulent presidential elections in Belarus, Patryk was also arrested and tortured at Okrestina 36 detention centre in Minsk alongside of thousands of illegally detained people.
On January first 2022 Patryk moved permanently to Kyiv, and since then is working all over Ukraine, continuously documenting events of the war and lives impacted by it.
Awards
Patryk has been recognised with 2023 Photo of The Year Award by Unicef, Press Photographer of The Year at the Prix de la Photographie in Paris, Grand Winner of The International Photography Awards 2024, Single Shot Award Winner 2024 of the Festival della Fotografia Etica, First prize in Photojournalism at the Xposure International Photo Festival, First prize in Documentary Photography at the Sarajevo Photography Festival 2024, Gold in Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023 and a finalist of Barcelona Human Rights Photo Festival of 2023.
Publications
Patryk’s work has been published in: The Times, ITV (UK), LeFigaro, LCI (France), Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Das Erste, ZDF (Germany), Polish Press Agency, Vogue, TVN24 (Poland), 20minutos, El Pais (Spain), Elle, Suspilne, Zaborona (Ukraine), Ukraine: A war crime book by FotoEvidence (USA).
His work has been exhibited in Federal Press Conference building of Germany and Willy Brandt Haus in Berlin as part of Unicef Photo of The Year exhibition, World touring Russian War Crimes exhibiton by Pinchuk Art Centre, First Ladies and Gentleman Summit in Kyiv exhibition and Barcelona Human Rights Photo Festival exhibition as well as solo exhibitions in Wrocław City centre.