HIS LIFE ...
Born in Poland, Eastern European country, Andrzej Haladuda was educated by his family in the Francophile and Occidental traditions, political and artistic. It marked all his personal and professional future.
Attracted since his childhood by every expression of image, from drawing to cinema, by approach theoretical versus practice, he found as adult his own way: to devote solely to photography, to its creation. This so important decision was taken after having studied the history of culture at Poznan University and the semiology at the University of Sorbonne in Paris. It was the mid-eighty. At this time starts his life, as he like repeat, in Paris, city of his dreams, in Paris, his home.
Then he took a two years photography course at the French Society of Photography in the Workshop of Professor Jean-Yves du Barré completed by photojournalistic training in the School of Journalism. Next step was his photographic work for different private, public, and government French institutions crowned by an engagement as assistant professor, still in photographic domain, in Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In the end he became an independent photographer, art photographer, fully at the beginning of his new, American life in New York City since 2002.
Andrzej Haladuda’s artistic work can illustrates significantly, better than other source, his European origin, his scholar, artistic, multimedial and general knowledge, his open-minded experimentation with different approaches and supports, and finally his style with two dominant components, French, “classical” or/and Slavonic, “romantic- expressionist”.
Numerous of his photographs were exhibited by well known French, Polish and American galleries and museums: French Society of Photography’s Gallery, Museum National in Warsaw, The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Bruce Silverstein, Photo Soho in New York etc. Different European festivals, newspapers and magazines published his “Portraits” and some of his monographs.
National Museum in Warsaw, Museum of Contemporary Art in Lodz, Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, The New York Public Library and many private collectors possess his works. Andrzej Haladuda was awarded and granted by universities fellowships, French Government, Foundation Michel Salomon Radochitzki, Paris Council and Department of French Foreign Affairs. Since 1990 he has been a member of the Société Française de Photogrphie.
Elaborated by Dr. Anna BABINSKA