Sabina Szafrankowska Member of the Polish Photographic Union, Warsaw, Poland, member of the Polish-American Photographic Club, New York, formerly expert in color photography for the publisher AGPOL, Warsaw, Poland. Sabina has organized more than twenty solo exhibitions and collective exhibitions in Poland, France, Mexico, Morocco, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Germany and the United States. Her work is included in private collections, galleries, Museum of the History of Photography, Cracow Poland and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

“When I was 7 years old, just before the end of World War II in 1945, I began to see the world differently. The Germans were deporting Jews into the unknown, while Poles were secretly feeding them in the forests. There were no toy stores, but in spring, children would pull interesting toys out of the roadside ditch from under a thin layer of ice. These were mementos from the past for the future. I particularly enjoyed looking at wet black and white photographs, which influenced my career choice at a young age. My life story is rich in various threads, I am open to the world, and belief in God gives me strength to overcome the earthly journey to eternity.”

Between 1971 and 1973, Sabina participated in the prestigious photographic exhibit “Three Years of International Venus Salons” in Krakow, Poland. Unfortunately, her works were stolen after the exhibit. Władysław Klimczak, President of the Photographic Society and Museum Director, than wrote…

“To Mrs. Sabina Szafranfowska, the author of ‘Venus ‘73,’ whose colorful photograms were stolen at the exhibition… and only works of outstanding artistic value were stolen.”