Roman Krawczenko (UA)

Roman Krawczenko (UA) born 1957 – photographer, historian, journalist from Ukraine. The artist recreated the method of the “wet collodion method” and creates photographs in the ambrotype technique (on glass). In recreating the 19th-centrury technique he is one of the few people in Poland to use this unique technology. Ambrotype is a technique so elite that only about one hundred artist around the world work in it. Kravchenko specialized in ethnographic portrait, historical photographic processes and the subject of the Crimean War 1854-55. His works have been presented multiple times in Poland and Ukraine and the exhibitions and workshops he conducts attract many young photographers. Living in Crimea the artist was an informal ambassador of the Polish culture – in Bakhchisaray he arranged an exhibition devoted to Adam Mickiewicz and the Crimean Sonnets, organized numerous photographic plain airs for the Polish photographers. Kravchenko is a member of the Frederik Skott Archer Foundation in London.