Jan Hausbrandt has spent over 40 years pursuing his passion, the art of photography. He describes his work as an effort to “uncover my surroundings and find my place among them”. Using light in its various forms he has sought to “focus on the impression of each photo rather that its reality”. Hausbrandt prefers black and white images in documentary photography and photojournalism, while his creative work utilizes both color and black and white images. Born in Warsaw he started his professional career in 1972 as a photojournalist for Polish Agency Interpress. He later became photographer for the popular Polish publication, Music Magazine. During this period his talents were also utilized by the British agency, Camera Press, and the Hamburg based German agency, Focus. In the early 1980’s, during Poland’s difficult and turbulent Martial Law his photos documented and unveiled the stark realities of everyday life during this dark period of Polish history. Since moving to the USA in 1985 he has worked as a freelance photographer for various agencies, such as Black Star, and most recently for a Japanese agency, Pan Asia. His photographs have appeared in magazines and newspapers (such as Newsweek, US News and World Report, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times). His stock photos are on file at the Picture Press Agency in Hamburg, Germany and at the East News Agency in Warsaw, Poland