{"id":42551,"date":"2026-05-04T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=42551"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:02:57","slug":"maciej-dakowicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/maciej-dakowicz\/","title":{"rendered":"Maciej Dakowicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maciej Dakowicz is a Polish photographer and educator based in Poland.<\/p>\n<p>He holds a PhD in computer science but left academia to pursue photography full-time. He is a member of the international street photography collective <strong>UP Photographers<\/strong> and an official <strong>Fujifilm X-Photographer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His work focuses on <strong>documentary, travel, and street photography<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>His photographs have been widely published and exhibited internationally, including at major festivals. He has received numerous awards and has also served as a judge in photography competitions. His work has appeared in leading street photography books, and he is the author of three monographs: <em><strong>Cardiff After Dark<\/strong><\/em> (<strong>Thames &amp; Hudson<\/strong>, 2012), <em>Sonepur Mela<\/em> (self-published, 2021), and <em>Where The Sun Rises: 20 Years of Street Photography in Asia<\/em> (<strong>EyeShot<\/strong>, 2024).<\/p>\n<p>He currently focuses on teaching his <strong>widely acclaimed street photography workshops<\/strong> around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MaciejDakowicz.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">www.MaciejDakowicz.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Fujifilm:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fujifilm-x.com\/global\/photographers\/maciej-dakowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">fujifilm-x.com\/global\/photographers\/maciej-dakowicz\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>IG:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/maciejdakowicz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">instagram.com\/maciejdakowicz<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maciej Dakowicz is a Polish photographer and educator based in Poland. He holds a PhD in computer science but left academia to pursue photography full-time. He is a member of the international street photography collective UP Photographers and an official Fujifilm X-Photographer. His work focuses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[607],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42553,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42551\/revisions\/42553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}