Education
2017 - 2021: Ph. D. Acadamy of Fine Arts in Cracow
2016: Wajda School in Warsaw
2015 - 2017: MA, Film School in Katowice
Bucolic film festivals & awards
2021, Locarno International Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique (World Premiere)
2021, Millennium Docs Against Gravity, Polish Competition (Best Polish Film Award)
2021, DOK Lepizig, International Competition (Silver Dove Award)<
2021, EnergaCAMERIMAGE, Documentary Features Competition
2022, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
2022, DOCAVIV
2022, TIFF Transylvania International Film Festival
2022, International Festival of Independent Cinema Off Camera
2022, 17. Polnisches Filmfestival in Berlin (Best Polish Film Award)
2022, Koszaliński Festiwal Debiutów Filmowych „Młodzi i Film”(Best Director Award, Best Cinematographer Award)
2022, MiradasDoc International Documentary Film Festival
2022, Biografilm festival
2022, Bali International Film Festival
2022, CineFest Miskolci
2022, Ethnocineca Film Festival
2022, Prowincjonalia
2022, Off Cinema
2022, Opolskie Lamy
2021, DokuBaku, Feature-Length Documentary Competition
2021, Festiwal Mediów "Człowiek w Zagrożeniu" (Aleksander Kamiński Award)
2021, Festiwal Form Dokumentalnych NURT (Audience Award, Student Award)
Photography awards
2021, shortlist, BUP Book Award.
2020, International Photography Grant - nominee.
2019, PDN Photo Annual, New York.
2018, honorable mention, International Photography Awards.
2019, honorable mention, the Boutographies Festival, Montpellier.
2019, honorable mention, BIałystok Interphoto Festival.
2018, winner, New East Photo Prize 2018, Londyn.
2018, winner, The Red Utopias, Paris.
2017, winner, LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards.
2017, winner Warsaw Photo Days.
2017, winner, Young Talents, La Quatrieme Image, Paris.
2016, winner, PDN Photo Annual, New York, 2016.
2015, winner, Prix de la Photographie, Paris.
2014, honorable mention, International Photography Awards.
2014, honorable mention, Hasselblad Master Awards, Londyn.
Exhibitions
2022, NIGHT SCHOOL, Dzielna Foundation
2021, Hibernacja, Salon przyjaciół Fundacji Pomoja, Warszawa.
2021, Atlasy Nowych Topografii – wystawa w Galerii Centrala
2021, Edifice, ImageNation Paris 2020 - Paris Photo Off,
2019, Edifice, Les Boutographies, Montpellier, Francja.
2019, Edifice, Imagesingulières, Gare de Sète, Sète, Francja.
2019, Edifice, New East Photo Prize, (EBRD) - Londyn.
2019, Specially for you, Cracow, ZPAF Gallery.
2018, Edifice, Calvert 22 Foundation Gallery, London.
2018, Edifice, Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugalia.
2018, Edifice, Voies Off Festival, Arles, Francja.
2018, Edifice, Nowy Jork, USA, Klompching Gallery.
2017, Edifice,The Melbourne Documentary Festival.
2017, Edifice, Warsaw, Warsaw Photo Days, Sinfonia Varsovia.
2017, Edifice, Cracow, Galeria ASP.
2017, Edifice, Paryż, L’espace Des Blancs Manteaux.
2017, Edifice, Cracow, ZPAF Gallery.
Books
2019, RED UTOPIAS - The reconciliation of spaces
ISBN: 978-2-9561884-2-1 © Essarter Editions:
Lectures and Workshops
2022 - present: The Maria Grzegorzewska University
2021 - present: Akademia Fotografii
2017 - 2022: Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow.
2022, Guest lectures: University of Gdańsk
2021, Guest lectures: Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam
2021, Guest lectures: Lodz Film School
2020, Guest lectures: Haute école des arts du Rhin, Mulhouse.
Selected publications
2022, Kwartalnik Empiria, Pamoja Press.
2021, Label Magazine, Symulakrum
2021, Noizz Magazine, Luksus w PRL. Był kopią nieistniejącej wizji zachodu.
2021, WhiteMAD, Symulakrum
2021. K MAG, Widmowe wnętrza PRL-u. Symulakrum
2020, Noizz Magazine, Poland, "Zdjęcia opuszczonych budynków, które kiedyś były symbolami komunizmu
2020, K MAG, Poland, „Gmach”: projekt fotograficzny Karola Pałki śledzi widma komunistycznych reżimów w Polsce, Słowacji i Niemczech Wschodnich"
2020, F5, Poland, "Widmo upadku jest bliskie i unosi się za grubymi murami wielkich idei
2020, Volume 91 of Subjectively Objective, USA
2020, Phroom Magazine, Italy
2020, FK Magazine, Latvia
2020, Broad Magazine, Canada
2020, Hype and Hyper, Hungary
2020, Paper Journal, Australia
2019, Bird in Flight Magazine
2019, "Edifice", Edge of Humanity Magazine, Londyn
2019," Five local photographers sharing fascinating stories from Eastern Europe", Dazed Magazine, ISSN • 0961-9704.
2019," The New East Photo Prize shortlist – in pictures" - The Guardian, Londyn, ISSN • 0261-3077
2019, "Red Utopia trilogy" - The British Journal, ISSN 0007-1196, London
2019, "Edifice" - The Calvert Journal, London,
2019, "Karol Palka" - Advenced Creation - Le MagazineDes professionnels des arts - str25-32., 2103-6780
2019, "BJP-online Loves…" - The British Journal, ISSN 0007-1196, London
2019, "Q&A: Karol Palka on shooting the Edifice of Soviet power" - The British Journal, ISSN 0007-1196, London
2018, Público, Lizbona, ISSN 0872-1548
2018, PlainMagazine, Londyn
2018, Tancent, Hong Kong
2018, Radio RDC, "Karol Pałka - Gmach"
2018, Radio TOK FM, "Przemijanie w obiektywie Karola Pałki"
2018, Off Radio Kraków, "Czy kamera prowokuje?"
2018, "Living museums: discover central Europe’s grand communist interiors", The Calvert Journal
2018, "QA: Karol Palka", British Journal of Photography, ISSN 0007-1196
2018, "Karol Palka: Edifice", Regiamag, Buenos Aires, Argentyna, ISNN: 2314-283909
2018, L'oeil de la photographie, Paris
2017, FotoRoom, Londyn
2017, Gup Magazine, Amsterdam,
2017, Ignant, Berlin
2017 The Best of Lensculture, USA, ISBN 978 90 5330 902 5
Grants
2020, Ministry of Polish Culture Scholarship
2019, Andrzej Wajda scholarship
2018, Scholarship of the city of Cracow, Poland
2017, Polish Film Institute
2015, Munk Studio - First document
Years have gone, winter is coming Film festivals
2017, 11th MiradasDoc, Canary Islands
2017, Ismailia International Film Festival, Egypt
2017, MEDIAWAVE, Hungary
2017, SevDocFilmFest, Crimea
2017, International Festival of Documentary Films "WON TOGETHER"
2017, 31st Pärnu Film Festival, Estonia
2017, Festiwał Młodzi i Film, Polska
2016, 56th Krakow Film Festival, Poland
2016, 32nd Warsaw Film Festival, Poland
2016, Kino Kultura, Warszawa
2017, Primanima World Festival of First Animations 2017, Hungary