fot. Grzegorz Warowny
Daniel Somber - (Born in 1993 in Zamość, Poland) a freelance photographer currently based in Spain, Andalusia. As far as he can remember, photography has always been present in his life and a compact film camera accompanied every family holidays. When he was 17 years old he had a serious leg injury while skateboarding. That situation pushed him to a new passion - photography. At the beginning he documented the skateboarding environment in the urban space of his hometown. After graduating from high school he moved to Lublin and started studying at the Lublin School of Art and Design and began experimenting with analog photography. During his studies he developed his first long-term project focusing on the documentation of the skateboarding culture in the urban space. After finishing school he moved to the Czech Republic which inspired him to work on a new long term photographic project - the underground urban space of Prague. Being one of the crowd, travelling every day together with half a million strangers by subway, his camera became a tool of escapism. In recent years he has been moving away from the urban scenery towards wild nature where he finds freedom and peace of mind. Photography and traveling are currently his greatest passions.
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2012 - 2015 - Studied at the Lublin School of Art and Design under the supervision of Andrzej Antoni Widelski, PhD.
In 2014 he took part in the street photography workshop organized by Tomasz Kulbowski in Lublin. After the workshop they organized a group exhibition.
In December 2014 he organized an exhibition titled ,, 30 cm above the sidewalks " in Brain Damage gallery in Lublin.
In January 2015 he took part in a collective exhibition entitled “30 dimensions of street photography” organized by Street Dogs of Poland group in Warsaw.
In March 2015 he took part in a collective exhibition entitled "Poland Street 2015" organized by the Polish Street Photography group in Warsaw
In January 2016 he was awarded in the photo competition Portrait 2nd edition organized by www.todobrykonkurs.pl . Subsequently, he took part in studio portrait workshops.
In February 2019 his subway photos were featured on the cover of the album Zoning Out Volume 2 by artist Emapea. The album was released on vinyl, cd, cassette and digital by Cold Busted Record Company Inc. Los Angeles, California.
In March 2019 he organized an exhibition called “Journey” at LUcreate gallery in Lublin.
In August 2020 he took part in a collective exhibition called "Anatomy of Change" organized by the Cultural Center of Lublin.
From October 2020 to June 2021 he took part in a volunteer project at Brama in Goleniów Theater where he was responsible for a photographic and video documentation of theater events.
Since September 2021 he lives in southern Spain where he works on new projects.