About me

My name is Joanna Sikora and I live in Gdańsk, though I was born in Gniezno, a small city in the region of Great Poland and the first capital of Poland. I’m presently studying at the Medical University in Gdańsk.

I have been interested in photography since the early 90s and I have started at a very young age (I was born in 1988), thanks to my grandfather, who taught me the first steps to mastering the magical world of lenses, light and shadow. My first photographs were taken on swan “hunt” with my grandfather’s Zenit camera.

In the spring 2008 I’ve abandoned a pocket digital camera and replaced it with a Canon Eos 400D – a digital SLR camera, with which I have been working ever since. I’ve always photographed nearly everything, and although in time I tried to focus on various subjects, my photography can be only defined as „vital snapshots”. This means that I try to capture the magic of the moment without losing its mood: a busy street, a smile of true love, or a delicate breeze among leaves.

I’m still evolving, and I’m confronting challenges in order to develop my skills. I do nature photography, macrophotography, portraits, photo reports and illustrative photography. That’s how I fight with being labeled, closed in one specific theme or technique.