Artist of the day, December 14: Andrzej Dragan, Polish physicist, photographer, film producer and director

Andrzej Dragan (1978), is a Polish physicist, photographer, Film producer and director. He studied in Warsaw and on scholarships in Amsterdam, Oxford and Lisbon, got his PhD in quantum physics cum laude in 2005. Awarded for the best MSc thesis in physics in Poland by the Polish Physical Society (2001), got a stipend from the European Science Foundation (2001, 2002), grants from the State Committee for Scienctific Research (2002, 2003), Award for the Young Scholars from the Foundation for Polish Science (2003, 2004), Stay With Us scholarship from the largest Polish weekly magazine „Polityka” (2004), Minister of Education Award for Outstanding Scholars (2010). Contributed to conferences or seminars in Amsterdam, Brisbane, Durban, Glasgow, London, Madrid, Minsk, Munich, Nottingham, Oxford, Singapore, St. Andrews, Warsaw, Waterloo and Tokyo. Member and former scientific secretary of the Head Commitee of the Physics Olympiad, previously worked at Imperial College London, University of Nottingham, currently working as an assistant professor of physics at Warsaw University, where he also received habilitaition (DSc) in 2015, and a visiting professor at National University of Singapore. He is leading a research group on Relativistic Quantum Information. Never tasted coffee.

In the past Andrzej was a winner of many national and international music-composing competitions. Involved in photography since 2003. Published his works in magazines and books in 12 countries, including Luzer’s “200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide” (2006). Awarded at the KTR ad festival with gold and silver medals (2006), two silvers and a bronze (2007), two golds two silvers and two bronzes (2008). Nominated to the Cannes Lion award at the Cannes Festival (2006). Silver medal in the Corbis Photography Awards (2007), gold medal in the Golden Drum Festival (2007).

In 2014 Andrzej established a movie production studio Weird. The premiere production received the Golden Sword award for the best personal work at the KTR ad festival (2014) and Best in Show and Best CGI awards from Creative Review (2014). Weird recently produced a music video for Behemoth (2015).

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Mr Andrzej Dragan

2003, Jerzy Urban

2003, Old Sailor

2003, Piano tuner

2003, Piotr

2004, Guardian

2004, Jan Peszek

2004, No title

2005, Cold blood

2005, David Lynch

2005, Entering the Barbie Bar

2005, In the Barbie Bar

2006, Allegory on the Truth

2006, Marta

2006, Marta on cover of DF

2006, Marta

2007, Absynt

2007, ad for Converse

2007, ad for Converse

2007, Mads Mikkelsen

2007, No title

2007, Schroedinger's cat

2008,  Old Bruce Lee for Energizer

2008 Joanna Senyszyn  and me (on the photo set)

2008, Joanna Senyszyn,   Machina

2008, Old Adolf Hitler for Energizer ad

2008, Old Marilyn Monroe for Energizer ad

2008, Old Marylin

2009, Cold War,  WHSmith

2009, ad for Fairy  

2009, Playstation 3- Siren Blood Curse

2009, PlayStation 3 ad

2010, Jim Broadbent for Chennel 4 ad

2010, Pieta

2010, Police, To Be ad

2010, The Promise for Channel 4

2010, Tribute to Alexander McQueen

2011, Kuba Wojewódzki

2011, Pilsner - Neverending story

2011, Wonderland

2013, Anna Dragan

2013, Daniel Olbrychski

2013, Michal Figurski

2013, Theatrical poster

2016, Joss Stone for PeTA

2016, Mads Mikkelsen for XTB

2016, Mads Mikkelsen for XTB

2016, Shots Magazine

2016, Shots Magazine

 From the Video "Reel 2017"

Andrzej Mleczko - cartoonist

Avon, Publicis Groupe Brazil

Behemoth - The Satanist

Doctor

Jim Broadbent

Kuba Wojewódzki

Monalisa

Personal

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