Jurek Wajdowicz

In his graphic design practice Wajdowicz has concentrated on images of poverty, famine and social justice.

After working on design projects for theaters and museums in Lodz, Warsaw and England (Pentagram, London), he went to the United States as an art director at Lubalin, Burns & Company in New York before co-founding Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios (EWS) with Lisa LaRochelle in 1982.

[5] EWS' partners and clients include international humanitarian organizations and non-profit institutions active in social change.

[6][7] From the 1990s to the present Wajdowicz and EWS created projects for the Rockefeller Foundation, Domtar, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), the Arcus Foundation, International Rescue Committee, Magnum Photos, Freedom House and the United Nations, working with photographers such as Eugene Richards, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Antonin Kratochvil, Deborah Turbeville, Philip Jones Griffiths, Richard Avedon, Elliott Erwitt, Jonas Bendiksen, James Nachtwey, Alex Webb and Gueorgui Pinkhassov.

The ongoing series is published by The New Press including photojournalists Kike Arnal, Delphine Diallo, Misha Friedman, Sunil Gupta, Lola Flash, Steve McCurry, Maciek Nabrdalik, Jenny Papalexandris and Charan Singh.