Tomasz Liboska
Tomasz Liboska lives in Chorzow in Upper-Silesia, Poland. He graduated from Anthropology of Culture at Silesian University in Cieszyn, Poland, and Institute for Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic. He’s been working on his projects on Upper Silesia (the biggest industrial region in Poland) for over 20 years. In his works he tries to find how people exist in society. That is why anthropological background is a clue for him. In his personal work the visual language is based on his own experiences.
An author of two photo publishings: Cut it Short (by Kehrer Verlag, 2021 with coauthor Michal Solarski) and Odwrót (by Pix House, 2018).
Most important exhibitions were presented during Photomonth in Krakow, Hereford Photography Festival, New York Photo Festival, Athens Photo Festival, Belfast Photo Festival,
His photographs were published in The New York Magazine, GEO, Newsweek, LaRepublica, Polityka, VICE, Feature Shoot, LensCulture, among others.
He is a winner and finalist of many internationally recognised awards and grants such as Lensculture Visual Storytelling Awards, Leica Oscar Barnack Award, PDN Photo Annual, Photolucida Critical Mass to name a few.
He showed his works in many photofestivals and exhhibits in Poland as well as around the world. His photographs could be seen in New York Magazine, LaRepubblica, GEO Magazine and many others.
