Czeslaw A. CzaplinskiWriter and photographer. Born in Lodz, Poland in 1953. A student at Lodz University, he left Poland for New York in 1979, and later become a U.S. citizen.
Czaplinski is the author of an album-biography "The Styka Family Saga" (1989),an album of portraits of famous people "Face-to-Face" (1991), and the album "The Face and Masks of Jerzy Kosinski" (1992). He has completed a photographic book called "New York," a biography-album "Kosinski's Passions," and a richly illustrated book "Careers in America," which was published in Poland last winter.
As a journalist, Czaplinski has written over 400 articles. His photographic portraits and photographic essays have been published widely by prestigious American newspapers and magazines including: The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, TIME, and Vanity Fair. As a photographer, Czaplinski has participated in a dozen one-man and group shows around the world. This included an individual exhibit in the prestigious Museum of Art in Lodz, and twice at the National Gallery Zacheta in Warsaw. In recognition for the excellence of his work, Czaplinski has received many awards. Most recently, the "150 Years of Photography Medal" from The Union of Polish Art Photographers, and the "Gold Medal for Artistic Creation" from the Lodz Photographic Society.
His resume was published in "American Photographers - An Illustrated Who's Who Among Leading Contemporary Americans" (Facts on File, New York/Oxford, 1989); "Who's Who in Photography 1991-1992" (Five Corners Publications, Ltd., 1991).
He is a member of: The American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP, New York), the Foreign Press Association (FPA, New York), the Union of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF, Warsaw) and the Association of Authors (ZAiKS, Warsaw).
From: Resume