Michal Iwanowski was born in Poland and has for some years lived in Cardiff, Wales where he graduated with an MFA in Documentary Photography at the University of Wales, Newport. His work combines elements of the documentary tradition with a conceptual approach. In his deeply personal projects, Michal often sets his protagonists against nature and explores the relationship between landscape and memory; marking the silent passing of otherwise insignificant individuals and histories. In 2009, he won the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers award.

In 2012 Michal retraced on foot the three-month, 2,200km trek his grandfather made from Russia to Poland after escaping from a Russian prison camp during the second world war. Maps, family portraits and extracts from the memoir his grandfather wrote combine with Michal’s own photographs to crea ...