Henryk Poddębski

Henryk Poddębski (21 November 1890 – 4 March 1945) was a Polish photographer, local historian. Member of the Polish Local History Union. he lived in Warsaw from 1900. In 1914–1939, he took part in more than 10 local history expeditions, excursion photo trips (including with ), during which he photographed the landscapes and life of Galicia, the Carpathians, Kuyavia, Masuria, Subcarpathia, Upper Silesia, Great Poland, Lithuania, Podillia, and Volyn. He was one of the Polish innovators of color photography before the World War II.

From 1917, Poddębski worked as the secretary of the Photographic Commission of the Polish Local History Union. Photographs of Henryk Poddębski are in the collections of (among others) the Museum of Warsaw, the National Digital Archives, the National Library of Poland, the Museum of the City of Gdynia and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Bronze Cross of Merit (1938).