A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland, Wiktoria Wojciechowska was the 2015 winner of the Oskar Barnack Leica Newcomer Award. She received many prizes for her project Short Flashes, portraits of drenched cyclists captured on the streets of metropolises in China. Between 2014 and 2016 she worked on the series Sparks, a portrait of contemporary war based on the stories of people living conflict in Ukraine. This series received several awards, such as Art Griffin Space and Lensculture Emerging Talent awards and the Prix pour la Photographie, Fondation des Treilles.