Kamila J. Gruss was born in Słupsk, where she creates and resides, Poland.

A graduate of the University of Szczecin, she earned a master’s degree in German Studies, specializing in this field from 2001-2007. Subsequently, from 2003-2012, she continued her education at Freie Universität in Berlin, obtaining master’s degrees in New German Literature, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature Studies.

While being a self-taught photographer, she has achieved impressive success as the winner of numerous international photography competitions. Her works have been showcased at prestigious exhibitions such as the Group Exhibition Sony World Photography Awards at Somerset House in London, both in 2018 and 2021.

In her photographic work, she addresses important issues, focusing on a woman’s right to self-determination, decision-making about her own body, and choices associated with it. Through her frames, she narrates about emotions, depression, loneliness as a place of existence, as well as anger, fear, and love anchored in the surrounding reality. Her creativity employs the language of dreams and soma, transforming the body from the subject of art into its agent. This fluid interplay of thoughts, dreams, and reality creates an incredibly intimate depiction of the world, which the author communicates through her photographic sensitivity.