Basia Bogacka ARPS  is a Polish fine-art photographer based in Northeast England. Inspired by a lifelong fascination with the natural world, her work explores the dialogue between vast landscapes and intimate details, revealing beauty in the subtle patterns, textures, and rhythms of nature.

Living close to the coast, she is continually drawn to the ever-changing character of the sea and the quiet transformations shaped by light, weather, and time. Alongside landscape photography, she creates abstract images that distil natural forms into compositions of shape, colour, and light.

Her recent work in the Far North explores the relationship between scale and intimacy, bringing the mystery and beauty of the Arctic closer through photographs that reveal both its vastness and the delicate artistry hidden within its frozen landscapes.

 

 

Publications

  • Responding to seaside rocks. Visual Art. The Magazine of the Royal Photographic Society Visual Art Group. No. 162, Issue 1, 2023.
  • Why do I push the shutter button. ICM Photography Magazine. No 9, March 2022.
  • Biodiversity in My Garden. ICM Photography Magazine. Special Environmental Issue. No 7, November 2021.
  • Melting Goddess of Fertility. Photographing Icelandic Glacial Caves. Artists and Climate Change Forum, May 2020.
  • Ice and Light. ARPS Distinction Panel. The Journal of the RPS Creative Eye Group. No 81, January 2020.
  • Breiðamerkurjökull. The RPS Travel Group e-newsletter No 44, March 2019.
  • Icelandic Adventure. Travel Log. The Journal of the RPS Travel Group, Issue 80, December 2018.

 

International Awards

  • Scottish Photographic Federation Silver Medal in Open Colour for the picture Distant Hills of the Isle of Harris exhibited at the 161st Edinburgh International 2025.
  • Panel Visualisation of Time longlisted for Visual Art Open 2023.
  • Image Sleeping Fox turned to Stone shortlisted for the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2022 in the category of Intimate Landscape.
  • Image Glacial Veins shortlisted for the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2021 in the category of Intimate Landscape.
  • Image Fossil Air Trapped in Ice selected for the RPS Science Photographer of the Year 2020 Exhibition.
  • Image Crying Glacier among finalists of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2020 Challenge One Colour Frame.

 

Exhibitions

  • Arctic Memoirs. Reflections on Impermanence.  Solo print exhibition. 8 - 31 August 2026, Edinburgh Photographic Society.
  • Belonging at the Abstract Rhythm and Blue Notes 3D Virtual Exhibition 2025 on the theme of Brutal Beauty.
  • 161st Edinburgh International Photography Exhibition 2025 
  • Edinburgh Photographic Society Members' Exhibition 2025
    • The John Rob Irish Photographic Federation Medal for the print Mysterious.
  • Image Freedom of Expression at Roots and Reflections - Abstract Explorations of Identity, Abstract Rhythm and Blue Notes 3D Virtual Summer Exhibition 2024, 2 July - 29 September
  • Image Polar Burst at Fragments, Find Your Voice 3D Virtual Summer Exhibition 2024, 27 June - 22 September
  • Edinburgh Photographic Society Members' Exhibition 2024, 25 May - 2 June
    • The Lord Caplan Trophy for the Print 'Confused' showing the most innovative use of colour in contemporary photography.
    • The Edinburgh Cameras Cup for the Print 'Unaware' showing the Greatest Creativity.
    • The St Vincent Trophy for the Best Set of Projected Images in League 1 'Moods of Svalbard'.
  • Silent Arctic at the Abstract Rhythm and Blue Notes 3D Virtual Summer Exhibition 2023, 11 July - 1 October 2023
  • Elation at the Find Your Voice 3D Virtual Summer Exhibition 2023, 26 June - 1 September
  • Royal Photographic Society Scotland Exhibition 2023/24 Autumn Colour at Ladykirk
  • Edinburgh Photographic Society Members' Exhibition 2023. The Lord Caplan Trophy for the Print Sinfonietta in Red - Rondo showing the most innovative use of colour in contemporary photography
  • Photography Now. The Brick Lane Gallery, London. 26 April - 7 May 2023.
  • Edinburgh Photographic Society Members' Exhibition 2022. Best Panel of Prints - The Centenary Cup for Tranquil Moments of the North Sea
  • Edinburgh Photographic Society Members' Exhibition 2021.  Best Set of Projected Images - The St Vincent Trophy for Hidden Treasures of an Ice Cave
  • Science Photographer of the Year 2020. The Manchester Science and Industry Museum, 12 February – 2 May, 2020. Fossil Air Trapped in Ice

 

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