Documenting lives and the spaces they inhabit

Jakub Knap is a Polish contemporary documentary photographer based in Poland and working worldwide. His practice moves between portraiture, landscape, and long‑form documentary work, exploring identity, displacement, and the ways people inhabit the places that shape them.

Through research‑driven storytelling, close collaboration, and sustained observation, he works with communities affected by migration, memory, and social change, examining how individuals navigate their environments both physically and emotionally.

Favouring quiet encounters over spectacle, Jakub creates restrained yet emotionally resonant images that invite reflection, sustained looking, and a deeper understanding of belonging, distance, and the human condition across Europe and other regions.

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

2023 - Persistance ‘Road of LIfe’ (in Progress)

2023 - RPS journal ‘Contemparory Photography’ - Click Here 



EXHIBITIONS

2023 - Source Graduate photography Online, Bath Spa Undergraduate Show, Bath - Click Here

2023- (Group) Free-Range, The Truman Brewery, London

July 2023 - Oleksandriya, Ukraine - Click Here

April 2024 - ‘Stories of Hope: A Thread of Love’ (collaboration with Anna Kovalevska) - Sion Hill, Bath

September 2024 - ‘Journey Within’ - Degree Show at Locksbrook campus, Bath Spa. - Click Here



Clients

The Friends of Oleksandriya Charity - Main Photographer - Click Here

Bath Spa University

Bath Life Magazine

Bath College

NABBA 

Ukrainian News -
Image of Pultney Bridge Feburary 2024 - Click Here
Photography shown on TV news - Click Here