Piotr Socha
, b. 1966
Piotr Socha (1966) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw. Since 1990’s he is best known as a press illustrator working for many Polish and foreign newspapers and magazines, including Machina, Polityka, Gazeta Wyborcza, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, and Polish edition of Playboy magazine. He also illustrates children’s books and board games, but starting in 2015, Pszczoły became a book that generated not only positive reviews and awards in Poland, including the best children’s and YA book in the Polish Book Publishers’ Society (PTWK) at "The Most Beautiful Book of the Year" Competition in 2015, but also international recognition (i.a. many foreign editions and awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2017 or the Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres 2017). In 2018 he illustrated another big-format book Drzewa [Trees]. More about Socha on his official page (accessed: March 4, 2019).
Bio prepared by Krzysztof Rybak, University of Warsaw, rybak.km@gmail.com
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