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

2021-2025 (University of Warsaw)
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)

2020-2021 (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
American Visual Narratives (BA)

2019-2020 (University of Hannover)
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