Tomek Sikora - was born in 1948 in Warsaw, Poland, to a painter mother and a sculptor father. In his twenties, he travelled to Paris, where he took seriously to photography. After coming back to Poland in 1971, he worked as a photojournalist for the next ten years and, meanwhile, cooperated with major Polish graphic designers in creating film and theatre posters.
In 1979, he realised two big projects: „Album” and „Alice in Wonderland”. They were two photographic series of surreal vision of the world and in 1980 were presented at the Biennale de Jeunesse in Paris at The Museum of Modern Art in the Pompidou Centre. From then on, Tomek started exhibiting extensively in Europe and the USA.
In 1982, he migrates to Australia and conducts workshops in photography at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Then he establishes a studio of advertising photography there and continues his activity in the area of art photography.
In 1986, Tomek started travelling and working extensively all over the world. Since 1996, he divided his life between Poland and Australia. He currently lives back in Warsaw. He has been frequently awarded for creativity in photography. Furthermore, he regularly publishes limited editions of his author’s books (55) and continues to exhibit extensively all over the world.