Richard Avedon photographer:
‘beautiful and strange photographs … full of deep feeling’.
Alexi Lubomirski - photographer:
“… Extremely soulful…”
Shira Shavit poet /creator:
“I stand before your creations with a deep sense of admiration, as if your lens does not only see reality, but reveals hidden layers within it, moments that choose to be preserved forever.
I carry a profound feeling that your work is not fleeting, it is written into time, woven into memory, and will find its rightful place in the books of history, where rare voices and perspectives unlike any other are preserved.
Continue to create with that quiet uniqueness, with that precision of heart and eye, because within you lies a gift that few are given, the ability to transform a moment into an eternal truth.”
Bem Le Hunte:
“You are such an evocative photographer, with images that are so haunting, conjuring up stories from another time and place”
Sophie Grove journalist
”For Bo Lutoslawski taking a portrait is like falling in love. His technique is near-telepathic inside into his subject, the way they move, the way they think - a fleeting attempt to catch their true identity. He never asks anyone to smile; and to his delight, they often do.”
Max Wykes-Jones in Arts Review:
“Powerfully baroque and quintessentially Polish photographic images …. very exciting.”
©️ David Hurn (Magnum Photo Agency)
Over the past 40 years Boleslaw Lutoslawski has photographed many of the greatest figures in the arts in Europe, spanning the worlds of music, literature, dance and theatre. Arriving in London from his native Poland in 1980, he was immediately absorbed into the capital’s fast-moving cultural scene, taking portraits of the likes of Glenda Jackson, Tom Stoppard, Bill Brandt, Philip King, Ernst Gombrich, John Cage, Alfred Schnittke, Peter Hall, Tambimuttu, George Martin, Marina Warner, Claes Oldenburg, Lucy Burge, Paloma Picasso, Helaine Blumenfeld, Richard Rogers, John Peel, David Hurn, Anthony Caro, Simon Callow, James Bonas, Jerry Goldsmith on assignments for Vogue, The Independent, Newsweek, The Illustrated London News, BBC and Harper’s & Queen among others. His work, however, is not constrained by time or place. And it has absolutely nothing to do with fashion. Instead, it results from a moment of special affinity, a kind of spiritual kinship, between two different personalities – the photographer and sitter.
Studies: Polish Film School in Lodz and Art History at Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Boleslaw Lutoslawski is a Portrait Photographer based in London (UK) and Lublin (Poland).
He has also published several books in English and Polish.
Time, the soul and Glenda Jackson - The Royal Photographic Society
photo: Max Lutoslawski - taken on stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London
One of my portraits of Witold Lutosławski was used to design a coin that went into circulation (800,000 coins).
Artist | Creator
Whenever I look at your extraordinary portraits and your rare, distinctive visual language, I find myself thinking that you are one of the most compelling and accomplished photographers I have ever encountered.
I can recognize your work before I even see your name. It carries such a distinct visual fingerprint—an unmistakable signature that is uniquely yours. And to me, that is the ultimate compliment an artist can receive.