About

Wojtek Kutyla (b. 1981, Poland) is a self-educated artist who frequently uses photography as a tool to look at themes that bug him. Apart from engaging in a documentary practice, he's also a keen portrait photographer recognised by competitions such as Portrait of Britain and Scottish Portrait Photography Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.

Wojtek is a member of the NEUK Collective and a graduate of the Sputnik Photos Mentoring Programme (13th edition).

Exhibitions & Books

Recognition

• One of 100 winners of the Portrait of Britain competition organised by the British Journal of Photography, 2016
• Sentience listed as one of the best books of 2015 by the Photocaptionist

Books

• 2025: Sputnik Photos no. 13, available for purchase
• 2025: Is Missing, Orange Press, available for purchase
• 2018: Strange Kind of Epic, 978-83-934660-2-3
• 2015: Sentience, ISBN 978-83-934660-1-6
• 2015: Stories for the end of the world
• 2012: Next door, a distant land, ISBN 978-83-934660-0-9
• 2009: Instant flight

Collections

• Photoireland Library, Dublin, Ireland
• Franklin Furnace Archive, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
• Visual Studies Workshop Research Center, Rochester, USA
• Tate Library, UK

Exhibitions

• Sputnik Mentoring Programme 13, SpinOff at the Fotofestiwal Lodz, 2025
• Sputnik Mentoring Programme 13, Warsaw 2025
• Fragments, solo show, Edinburgh 2025
• A Grimace Called Smile, group exhibition, Warsaw 2024
• Portrait of Britain, September 2016
• Sentience, Summerhall, Edinburgh, September 2015
• Quality of everyday life, November 2013
• We have invented nothing (Jonathan Freemantle), Amsterdam, December 2011
• Next door, a distant land, Edinburgh, December 2011

Press publications

Więź (2025), British Journal of Photography (2016), The ProgRock Magazine (2021), boom saloon, The Skinny Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, Destiny Man Magazine, Dossier Magazine, The Scottish Herald, Mystic Art Music Magazine.

All work by Wojtek Kutyla unless stated otherwise. All rights reserved.

Contact

Email: wojtek@kutyla.com

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