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).
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.