RyszardHorowitz
Photocomposer. For six decades he has built impossible pictures, first in camera and the darkroom, years before the computer, then in digital.
The work
Over 330 images across six collections. Every one is available as a signed archival print.
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Analog
Photocompositions made in camera and in the darkroom, 1965–2006, before a computer could do any of it.
48 works
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Digital
From the early 1990s on, the same impossible worlds, now assembled pixel by pixel.
49 works -
Jazz
Krakow’s jazz cellars in the 1950s and the American giants of 1958–63: Brubeck, Ellington, Armstrong, Monk.
72 works
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Kraków
His home city, folded, warped and haunted.
17 works
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Poznań
Impressions of Poznań, published as a book in 2010.
29 works
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Wrocław
Water towers, filters and the city from the Mathematical Tower, in spherical and Mercator projections.
19 works
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Sketches & paintings
Conceptual sketches: where the photocompositions begin.
80 works
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Video
Films about Horowitz and his process, including the 50-minute documentary The Photographer of Dreams.
6 films
From Kraków to New York
One of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz, apprentice to Alexey Brodovitch, and a pioneer of special-effects photography long before digital imaging.
- 1939Born in Kraków, Poland
- 1959Moves to New York and enrols at Pratt Institute
- 1967Opens his own photography studio
- 1983Named ADWEEK All-American Photographer of the Year
- 2017Inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame
- 2025One man show at Hartigovský Palác, Prague
Own a print
Every image on this site is available as an archival pigment print, produced exclusively by Ryszard Horowitz’s studio and signed and dated by the artist. Prices depend on print size.