BIO
D-Mo is a visual storyteller whose work transforms the complexities of identity, migration, memory, and survival into precise acts of presence. Her practice investigates what remains after rupture — how individuals reoccupy space, and how subtle shifts in perception alter meaning.
Born of Polish heritage and grounded in the Australian landscape, she has developed a body of work that bridges personal history with collective experience. Working across portraiture, conceptual photography, installation, and mixed media, she employs pared-back environments and deliberate spatial gestures to explore presence, absence, and symbolic elevation.
Over the past two decades, D-Mo has established an internationally recognised career. Her portraits — intimate, restrained, and psychologically charged — have been exhibited at institutions including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne, the Sydney Jewish Museum, and in 2025 at the Knesset, Jerusalem.
Her work has been recognised in major awards including the Olive Cotton Award (Winner, 2021) and multiple international portrait prizes.
Across her practice, D-Mo resists spectacle. Through singular images that transcend subject or format, she captures humanity with clarity and intensity, creating work that is at once personal and collective.
EDUCATION: LIFE
RESIDENCIES
2024
Bundanon Artist Residency, NSW, Australia
EXHIBITIONS
2026
Upcoming Exhibition: :: Blue Mountains Portraits 2026 ::
2025
Finalist ::Wollongong Art Prize :: Group Exhibition , Sydney, Australia
The Lonka Project - Knesset - Jerusalem , Israel
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