Professional Biography

Jan Hausbrandt has spent over 40 years pursuing his passion, the art of photography. Uninterested in staged photographs and advertising, he describes his work as an effort to “uncover my surroundings and find my place among them”. Using light in its various forms he has sought to “focus on the impression of each photo rather that its reality.” Hausbrandt prefers black and white images in documentary photography and photojournalism. His creative work utilizes both color and black and white images.
Born in Warsaw he started his professional career in 1972 as a photojournalist for Polish Agency Interpress. He later worked as a photographer for the popular Polish publication, Music Magazine. During this period his talents were also utilized by the British agency, Camera Press, and the Hamburg based German agency, Focus. In the early 1980’s, during Poland’s difficult and turbulent Martial Law his photos documented and unveiled the stark realities of everyday life during this dark period of Polish history.
Since moving to the USA in 1985 he has worked as a freelance photographer for various agencies, such as Black Star, and most recently for a Japanese agency, Pan Asia. His photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers (such as Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times). His stock photos are on file at the Picture Press Agency in Hamburg, Germany and at the East News Agency in Warsaw, Poland.

Jan A. Hausbrandt

Career Data: 1972 – to present

• PICTURE PRESS – Photo Agency in Hamburg (Germany)
• MARKA s.r.l. – Photo Agency in Milano (Italy)
• A.G.E. – Stock Photo Agency in Barcelona (Spain)
• PAN-ASIA – Newspaper Alliance Photo & Press Agency in Tokyo (Japan)
• TRANSGLOBE – Agency in Hamburg (Germany)
• EAST NEWS – Photo Agency in Warsaw (Poland)
• OK’ AMERICA – Monthly Magazine published in New York
• BLACK STAR – Agency in New York
• THE GRAD PARTNERSHIP – (Architecture/Interiors) – architectural photography
• Stephen W. Schwartz A.I.A. – (Architect/Planner) – interior photography
• FOCUS – Agency in Hamburg (Germany)
• CAMERA PRESS – Agency in London (Great Britain)
• ARCHITECTURA – Polish Architectural Magazine in Warsaw (Poland)
• THE CLASSIC MUSIC MAGAZINE – in Warsaw (Poland)
• P.A. INTERPRESS – Agency in Warsaw (Poland)

Major Publications:

• FORD FOUNDATION – Annual Report (New York)
• US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT – (Washington D.C.)
• TIME MAGAZINE – (New York)
• NEWSWEEK – (New York)
• BOSTON GLOBE – (Boston)
• LOS ANGELES TIMES – (Los Angeles)
• SIMON &SCHUSTER – (New York)
• BERLITZ INTERNATIONAL – (New Jersey)
• CHELSEA HOUSE PUBLISHERS – (New York)
• SPIEGEL – (Germany)
• ZEIT – Magazine (Germany)
• NOWY DZIENNIK – (Polish Daily Newspaper) in New York
• NOW – Magazine (England)
• ASAHI – Magazine (Japan)
• VIVA – Magazine (Poland)
• POLITYKA – Magazine (Poland)
• TWOJ STYL – Magazine (Poland)
• DOM I WNETRZE – Interior and Architectural Magazine (Poland)
• THE CLASSIC MUSIC MAGAZINE – (Poland)

Exhibitions & Contests:

• “DREAM CITY” – EXHIBITION at PIASA Gallery, (New York, 2009)
• “NEW YORK PAINTED WITH LIGHT” – EXHIBITION of Photographs (GDYNIA,
  Poland 2005)
• “NEW YORK PAINTED WITH LIGHT” – American festival in CHARZYKOWY,
  (Poland, 2005)
• “NEW YORK CITY” – Restaurant “Pod Krzyzykiem” -( Cracow, 2004)
• “NEW NEW YORKERS” – Portraits in Photos & Words – ZPAF Gallery (Warsaw, 2004)
• “STREETS OF NEW YORK” – POKAZ Gallery (Warsaw, 1999)
• “EMOTIONALISM” – GROUP SHOW AT NORTH EASTERN UNIVERSITY (Boston, 1998)
• “THE LOOK” – EXHIBITION IN POLISH GENERAL CONSULATE IN NEW YORK (1997)
• “POLISH IMAGES” – 1996 (New Jersey)
• “POLISH PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE WORLD” – GROUP SHOW (Poland, 1991)
• WORLD PRESS PHOTO – 1977/78 (Holland)
• PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST & EXHIBITION 1975/77 (Poland)
• “THEATRE OF NATIONS” – EXHIBITION 1975 (Poland)