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Mystery-soaked art and poetry event in Soho

Back in January 2023 I've captured and witnessed a few intriguing scenes during the sold out Moon Child performance called Return to...

An unusual music experience in Camden

Back in January I went to Camden to photograph something extraordinary. Songwriter, guitarist and producer Russell Swallow has joined...

Event photography at Barnardo's latest report launch

Barnardo’s charity, focusing on children’s health and wellbeing, has recently commissioned me to photograph their latest Invisible...

Photographing Petra Haller and the Beatbox Academy for National Opera Studio in London

I was hired to document the event featuring London-based dancer, script writer, choreographer and producer Petra Haller performing tap...

Portraits and simplicity

Inspired by Steve McCurry's 'Afghan Girl', I've created this portrait of Catarina in the West London studio last year. Aiming for a...

Recent headshots work for the Head of Creative.

Aiming for impact, knowledge, experience. The challenge was to use the right angle for the lighting and avoid reflections in glasses,...

City Jazz Trio promo photos

Here are recent promo photos I did for the City Jazz Trio band, helping them get more bookings and promote the jazz website project. The...

Portraits of fire and fury

My drawing skills are somewhere between a 3-year old and Picasso. When I was preparing concepts for the next portrait photoshoot and...

Vortex exploded with jazz tunes

With Guido Spannocchi on saxophone, Jason Simpson on double bass, Joe Armer on a guitar and Tristan Banks on drums, Vortex in Dalston...

Daylight Music concerts

A few of my shots were chosen to represent Daylight Music event series, now run in three different London locations on Saturday...

The concert trailer is live!

Here's the trailer for the music event series I worked on, including editing live video footage, cutting the music background, choosing...

On TikTok and music

I have created an account on TikTok last night under KatCiemiegaArt, after having some slight prejudice to this social media, I have to...

A letter to a person who banned me on Instagram

I woke up this morning after a series of all-nighters* and started doing the usual: breakfast, replying to Instagram messages - people...

What a night!

After months and months of indoor life the doors were open to meet and listen to live music again. I was working on filming Jake and...

Filming a documentary: behind the scenes

I have finished the day two of a new filming project consisting of two interviews and a background story on Dave Shrimpton, a...

Filming at the art temple

Today I ventured for a new project filming at the art temple of Dave Shrimpton photography studio. Dave runs wet collodion and film...

Magic from the mind

Here are the results of the last few weeks of working on the fantasy series inspired by books and a general interest in history and...

Portrait of Shane

Shane is a teacher, guitar player and an author of a podcast called The Shack where he interviews people and discusses interesting...

Shaped with light and colour

Bomb! Portrait of Celine, a designer and illustrator, who created this harness piece shown for the scene. Matching the personality and...

Pure Mind

Portrait of Veronica, a pro piercer, lover of body modification and tattoos based in London. It was an interesting experience to shoot...