Photography by Rui Gui, 2024
Rogala's artistic practice is rooted in process and intuition. Rather than treating photography as a tool for documentation, he approaches it as a dialogue with experience. His work often involves direct interventions in the photographic image – through gesture, chance, and the physicality of the medium. Embracing unpredictability, he allows the process itself to shape the direction of his practice. Technical perfection holds little importance for him; instead, technique functions only insofar as it serves the idea. Having graduated from the Fine Arts High School in Radom, now studies at the National Film School in Łódź he continues to develop a practice that emerges from experiment, reflection, and an engagement with the materiality of photography, producing images that emphasize both process and presence.
Alongside his artistic practice, Benedykt works professionally in portrait, event, and documentary photography. He is also active in the theatre, where he contributes both as a visual designer and photographer, creating images that accompany and enrich stage productions.
Talk with Benedykt and his Mom about the project "It has always been the two of us",
https://youtu.be/VXz5m4ngHz4?si=egvgJOaCGFCK74S9
PART OF SZPONTY STUDIO
Exhibitions
Individual
"It has always been the two of us",
Photogallery,
Opole photography festival, 2025
Group
"The spaces in Between", Spinoff Łódź Fotofestival, Pop-up Gallery, Łódź 2025
"Art, Memory, Humanity" House of Silence, Oświęcim 2025
"Show yourself" Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, 2024
"Łódź Filmschool in Denmark", Kunsthuset Annaborg, Denmark 2024
"The sun never sets", Sopot photography festival, National Gallery in Sopot, 2024
"Actual state", Galery Oda, Piotrków Trybunalski, 2024
Publications
"It has always been the two of us", photobook 2025
"Stage seven: Creation Versus Stagnation", photobook 2025
Opole Photography Festival, catalogue 2025
"Show yourself" Centre of Contemporary Art in Toruń, catalogue 2025
Festivals
Opole photography festival, Poland 2025
Installation Echoes, Ravekjavik, Poland 2025
"Art, Memory, Humanity" workshops in Oświęcim, Poland, 2025
Sopot photography festival, Poland 2024
Schollarships
President of Radom, "Jacek Malczewski Scholarship for Artistic Achievement", 2023
Contests
Winner of XV Opole photography festival, 2025
Recipient of the Center of Contemporary Art in Toruń "Show yourself", 2025