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Karol Hordziej

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Karol Hordziej (born 1981) is a cultural manager and curator. He is the president of the Foundation for Visual Arts, a Krakow-based, non-profit arts organization dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of the visual arts in Poland, with an emphasis on photography. Since 2006 Hordziej has served as artistic director of the Krakow Photomonth Festival, an annual international photography festival organized by the Foundation. From 2007-2011 he was a co-founder and director of the ZPAF i S-ka Gallery, a commercial contemporary photography gallery. His recent curatorial projects include a group show entitled "Photography in Everyday Life", made in 2012 in collaboration with British curator Charlotte Cotton and an online archive devoted to Zofia Rydet’s “Sociological Record”, which was launched in December 2013.