Izabela Jedrzejczyk

Izabela Jedrzejczyk (pronounced yen-jay-chik, born 1953), commonly anglicized as Isabella Jedrzejczyk, is a British documentary photographer. She has made work about the lives and landscapes of working-class communities, particularly in North East England. Her work is held in the collection of Side Gallery, Newcastle.

Life and work Jedrzejczyk was born in London. She studied at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, East Midlands, then in 1977 moved to Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, to work at Side Gallery. In the early 1980s, she produced the series For Druridge with John Davies—landscapes of part of the Northumberland coastline at risk from plans to develop a nuclear power station. Also in the early 1980s, she created a series of rural Northumberland Landscapes.

Publications Publications by Jedrzejczyk Jungle Portraits. Flow Photographic Gallery Catalogue 3. Flow; Independent Publishing Network, 2021. . With an essay by Alex Schneideman.

Publications with contributions by Jedrzejczyk Striking Women: Communities and Coal. London: Pluto, 1986. Photographs by Jedrzejczyk, Raissa Page, Brenda Prince, and Imogen Young. . With essays by Siân James and Angela V. John.

Exhibitions Solo or two-person exhibitions Citizens of Our Time, Side Gallery, Newcastle, April–June 2022. Paired with Gary Calton. From the Earth Comes Light, National Coal Mining Museum for England, Caphouse Colliery, Overton, Wakefield. Paired with Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen.

Group exhibitions Striking Women: Communities & Coal, The Photographers' Gallery, London, September–October 1985. With work by Jedrzejczyk, Raissa Page, Brenda Prince and Imogen Young. Women by Women, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, 2018. With work by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Karen Robinson, Tish Murtha, Markéta Luskačová, and Jedrzejczyk's Jungle Portraits. Curated by Konttinen. Part of the Idea of North season. Light Years: The Photographers' Gallery at 50, The Photographers' Gallery, London, June 2021 – February 2022 Side Gallery, Newcastle (Jungle Portraits and Urban Landscapes)