Back in Poland in 2006, a friend and I co-founded House of Retouching. For 17 years the studio retouched work for Vogue, Marvel, Netflix and Disney. My side was clients and sales, the brand, technical direction and the team, 15 people at its biggest. In 2023 I sold my half.
From 2014 I photographed Polish actors and directors for Kino Polska, Andrzej Wajda and Janusz Gajos among them. The Renaissance series grew out of those years. And later painting, which I still love.
The studio years left room to try things. In 2018 I founded Avalanche to teach an AI to retouch e-commerce photos, with a small team of data scientists. The prototype worked; investors weren't ready yet. I studied film directing for a year and traded for two.
After the studio I built apqa, an app about money and how we feel about it. Then Station Meditation: we offered meditation to Kraków companies. Nobody bought it, but its YouTube channel became the seed of FireSoul. Then code became the work: AI tools for public-sector lawyers, FireSoul since 2025, and small things like dicti and Mettakin.
Lately I put a lot of focus on AI and how it will reshape my life, and all of ours.
Practice
Thirty years of meditation. It's why FireSoul and Mettakin exist. The teaching on FireSoul comes from teachers. I build the place.
Running
I run mountain ultras, 100 km at most so far. With friends I organise Blady Kozak, from Kraków to Turbacz or Babia Góra, 80 to 96 km. We've held it four times. bladykozak.pl
Credits
Phase One brand ambassador, 2014-2017