Monika Chmielarz
The Family Portrait (Dad)
'The Family Portrait (Dad)' is an ongoing project about my family: a personal journey towards getting to know my father. Research shows that many fathers are absent either emotionally or physically from daughters' lives, unable to identify with their softer side. After 10 years being abroad, I returned home to reconnect with my father. The camera became a great excuse to spend time together, a magical device in overcoming awkwardness and a clever machine allowing a blatant stare or accurate investigation. The project is twofold touching on aspects of reconnection and wonderment, whilst simultaneously narrating about the medium of photography with it's unique ability to get closer to the photographed subject, to examine, scrutinize or just wonder around the surface.
Alison Baker Kerrigan • Dominique Beyens • Lyndsey Browe • Marcus Cassidy • Monika Chmielarz • Sabrina Colley • Madeleine Collins • Cait Fahey • Aoife Forrestal • Megan Gallagher • Jasmina Jasinska • Christine Ann Jones • Henning Koestler • Jason Lowe • Claudi Nir • Lucy Nuzum • Orla O'Brien • Diarmuid O'Riordan • Amy Petherbridge • Giorgia Pistoia • Amy Plant • Niamh Raftery • Lynn Rothwell • Eoin Shiel • Louise Slevin •
Barking and Dagenham College
BA (Hons) Photography
Blackpool and the Fylde College
BA (Hons) Photography
Mid Cheshire College
FDA Contemporary Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
De Montfort University
BA (Hons) Photography and Video
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh Napier University
BA (Hons) Photography and Film
University College Falmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University for the Creative Arts Farnham
BA (Hons) Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art
University of Gloucestershire
BA (Hons) Fine Art - Photography
Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University
BA (Hons) Photographic and Electronic Media
Griffith College Dublin
BA Photographic Media (Part Time)
Hereford College of Arts, University of Wales
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Central Lancashire
BA (Hons) Photography
Leeds College of Art
BA (Hons) Photography
Liverpool John Moores University
BA (Hons) Photography
Manchester Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography
The National College of Art & Design
Certificate in Photography and Digital Imaging
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography