About

Jan Bałut (born 1998 in Brzozów) is a young photographer, a wanderer of the Bieszczady mountains and the Polish vice-champion in strength calisthenics. Self-taught, he chose traditional analogue photography as his medium.

He graduated in English philology, where he deepened the love of poetry first instilled in him by his mother, a teacher of Polish literature. He grew especially fond of the Romantic era and began consistently reflecting its principles on film.

He comes from the area around Sanok and spends most of his free time travelling the wild, roadless corners of the Beskids and the Bieszczady. That calm, emptiness and sense of respite is what you see in his work.