BIO
D-Mo is a visual storyteller who transforms the complexities of identity, migration, and memory into poetic acts of presence.
Born of Polish heritage and grounded in the Australian landscape, D-Mo’s life and work are shaped by duality: she is a twin, a mother, a migrant, and an artist navigating mirrored and individuated identities. Since moving to Australia in 2004, she has cultivated a practice that bridges personal history with universal human experience.
Over the past two decades, D-Mo has established an internationally recognised career in photography. Her portraits — intimate, dignified, and emotionally resonant — have been exhibited at institutions including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne.
Her work has been celebrated in major awards:
Finalist, Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 – National Portrait Gallery, London
Finalist, Bowness Photography Prize 2023 – Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
Finalist, Head On Portrait Award 2022 – Sydney, Australia
Olive Cotton Award for Photographic Portraiture 2021 – Tweed Regional Gallery, Australia
Julia Margaret Cameron Award 2023 – Fotonostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Across her career, D-Mo has documented communities, explored resilience, and produced portraits that resist superficial categorisation. Her practice continually evolves, moving between intimate documentary, conceptual experimentation, and universal allegory.
D-Mo’s work is not about perfection but about truth. Through singular images that transcend subject, style, or format, she captures humanity in its rawest form — challenging boundaries, pushing deeper into what lies beneath the surface, and creating work that is at once personal and collective, documentary and visionary.
D-MO has found solace and inspiration in Australia since 2004.
EDUCATION: LIFE
RESIDENCIES
2024
Bundanon Artist Residency, NSW, Australia
EXHIBITIONS
2024
Aukland Festival of Photography , The Lonka Project, Auckland, New Zealand
Small Works Art Prize, At The Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
23/24 Finalist of the Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2023
Prize Winner of the Hahnemuhle Summer Salon at the Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia
Head On Exhibition , The Lonka Project :: Bondi Beach Promenade, Sydney, Australia
Finalist of The Bowness Photography Prize 2023, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne, Australia
19th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Exhibition , FotoNostrum Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Collectors’ Edition #9 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2023 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2022
Finalist :: Head On Portrait Festival 2022 :: Bondi Pavilion, NSW, Australia
Shutter - Hub Yearbook 2022 :: Online Group Exhibition, United Kingdom
Collectors’ Edition #8 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2022 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2021
Winner of the Olive Cotton Award 2021, Tweed Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia
Collectors’ Edition #7 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
Finalist :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2021 :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
2020
The Lonka Project :: Group Exhibition, United Nations Headquarters, NYC, USA
The Lonka Project :: Group Exhibition, Virtual Screening, Visa Pour L’Image 2020, Perpignan, France
Out of The Fire: Resilience in the Face of Natural Disaster :: Group Exhibition, Blue Mountains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia
AWARDS
Prize Winner of the Hahnemuhle Summer Salon 2023 at the Centre For Contemporary Photography, Melbourne Australia
Winner of the Olive Cotton Award 2021, Murwillumbah, Australia
NATIONAL COLLECTIONS
Tweed Regional Gallery, Murwillumbah, NSW
National Library of Australia (NGA), Canberra, ACT
State Library of NSW , Sydney , NSW
State Library of South Australia , Adelaide, SA
The Sydney Jewish Museum, Sydney, NSW
BOOKS
The Lonka Project, 2024
"Tense Feelings" , 2018