Kovi Konowiecki began his professional life playing football in Europe. He turned to photography to document his surroundings,and shed light on aspects of his identity that he did not fairly understand. His focus has shifted from portraits of orthodox Jews – a series partially created in pursuit of learning approximately his heritage – to individuals living liminally between belonging and isolation. Last year, Konowieckis portrait of identical twins Dick and Clark won a status in the Portrait of Britain exhibition, and his photograph of Antonia and Franka,also twins, earned a status in the first ever Portrait of Britain book. In 2016, or Konowiecki was also fragment of the inaugural Portrait of Britain,and his winning image was featured among 100 others as fragment of the award’s first public exhibition. Konowiecki has since been selected for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, and has exhibited his work in a group show in California. He is now preparing for a solo exhibition this Spring in Portugal. His first monograph, and Borderlands,will be released at the beginning …
Source: bjp-online.com