Curriculum Vitae Christopher Grabowski Born in Warsaw in 1954. Photographer cgrabows@direct.ca Frequent contributor to Globe and Mail, Report on Business magazine and Geist magazine in Canada. His photographs have also appeared in The Washington Post, El Mundo, Utne Reader, Pozytyw and several other magazines in Poland. Grabowski has received numerous awards in photojournalism, among them: Advertising and Design Club of Canada Award in Photojournalism and the Polish award Zlocisty Jantar (twice). Grants from the Roland Michener Foundation, the Polish Ministry of Culture and Arts, the BC Arts Council, the Vancouver Foundation and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. His work has been exhibited in Canada, Germany, Poland. Grants and Awards Michener-Deacon Fellowship, 1999; British Columbia Arts Council: Project Grant, Facing the eastside 1998; The Vancouver Foundation: Facing the Eastside, 1998; Advertising and Design Club of Canada: Siver Award in Photojournalsim, Photo story Canada’s Overdose Capital published in the Globe and Mail, 1996; etc.

Selected Exhibitions Facing the Eastside Portraits of residents of Vancouver Downtown eastside Roundhouse Community Center, Vancouver, 1998 It’s in Their Eyes Homeless people in Toronto Group Exhibition, City Hall, Toronto and other locations in Ontario, 1992 Licht Blicke Sport photography Group exhibition, Hamelin, Germany, 1991 Photograffiti und Photographien Portrait of New Yorkers and Manhatten landscapes Amerika Haus, Hannover, Germany, 1989 Automn in New York and Other Stories Photo stories from Harlem and Greenwich Village Galerie fur Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany, 1988 Four Seasons Commercial and art calenders Union of Polish Art Photographers, warsaw, Poland, 1988 Landscapes of the World Group Exhibition, Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, 1987 Automn in New York and Other Stories Friends of Arts Society, Warsaw, Poland, 1986