Koen Potgieter is based in Warsaw. ​

Currently working on two photography books, one about the city I live in and one about my hometown in the Netherlands. To get in touch you can write to koenpotgieter@gmail.com

Teaching

University of Warsaw (2021-2025)

  • On Photography: 1970 - 2020 (BA)

  • Lyric Documentary: Inventing a Genre (BA)

  • Landscape Photography: Perspectives on America (MA)

  • American Documentary Photography (BA)

  • The American Photobook (BA)


Freie Universitaet Berlin (2020-2021)

  • American Visual Narratives (BA)

University of Hannover (2019-2020)

  • The American Photobook (MA)


Writing & Exhibitions

2024
Hometown Song, Solo Exhibition Broedplaats Oogst, Hengelo

2021
Foreword for Mirjana Vrbaski’s Odd Time
(one of The Guardian’s Photobooks of the Year)

2020
Raum/Space Group Exhibition, Kaliningrad

Education

2019
PhD in American Literature, Freie Universitaet Berlin

2013
MA in American Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen