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Izabella Sapuła
Izabella Sapuła
Izabella Sapuła

Izabella Sapuła

Country: Poland

Polish photographer specializing in fine art photography. She is self-taught and engages in her passion for photography and art as a tool to explore human relationships but also relationships with herself or the surrounding nature. Her psychological education and the fact that she grew up among animals in a house on the edge of the forest are clearly visible in her photographs. The direction of her work is determined by a longing for understanding and deeper view of human and his unity with the natural world.
 

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Scotland
1942
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