Izabela Jedrzejczyk


Izabela Jedrzejczyk, commonly anglicized as Isabella Jedrzejczyk, is a British documentary photographer. She has made work about the lives and landscapes of working-class communities, particularly in North East England. Her work is held in the collection of Side Gallery, Newcastle.

Life and work

Jedrzejczyk was born in London. She studied at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, East Midlands, then in 1977 moved to Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, to work at Side Gallery.
For Side Gallery, Jedrzejczyk worked on various documentary projects. In 1979, she produced Urban Landscapes, a series of images predominantly from Newcastle and North Tyneside's urban environment. It was commissioned as part of the North Tyneside Survey, an initiative by North Tyneside Metropolitan Council to document the area during a period of significant change. In 1980, she made portraits of locals and visiting ships' crews at the Northumberland Arms, a pub on North Shields fish quay in Tyneside known as "The Jungle". In the early 1980s, she produced the series For Druridge with John Davies—landscapes of part of the Northumberland coastline at risk from plans to develop a nuclear power station. Also in the early 1980s, she created a series of rural Northumberland Landscapes.

Publications

Publications by Jedrzejczyk

  • Jungle Portraits. Flow Photographic Gallery Catalogue 3. Flow; Independent Publishing Network, 2021.. With an essay by Alex Schneideman.

Publications with contributions by Jedrzejczyk

Exhibitions

Solo or two-person exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Collections

Jedrzejczyk's work is held in the following permanent collections: