Current employment
Owner of Mila Łapko Studio
Lecturer and researcher at Design Department, Academy of Art in Szczecin
Education:
2024 / PhD, Academy of Art in Szczecin, Poland
2012 / MA, University of Arts in Poznań, Interior Design and Scenography Department, Poland
2010 / MA, University of Szczecin, Philosophy Department, Poland
2010 / BA, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Interior Design and Scenography Department, Poland
2005 / High School, Constantin Brancusi Fine Arts in Szczecin, Poland
List of awards ans scholarships:
  • Scholarship granted by the Marshal of the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship in the discipline ‘Culture’ | 2020
  • Creative Scholarship of the City of Szczecin | 2016
  • Scholarship granted by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland | 2012
  • Scholarship granted by the Marshal of the Wielkopolskie Voivodship | 2011
Emilia Łapko runs her own studio of photography and design which focuses on art creation as well as fashion, creative and image-building photoshoots. She advises companies as an artistic director specializing in branding. Her area of activity includes photography, video and visual communication. She enjoys unconventional solutions and professional approach to every project. She graduated from two universities – the University of Arts in Poznań, where she obtained a master’s degree in art and the University of Szczecin, where she obtained a master’s degree in philosophy. Emilia Łapko is a lecturer of fashion photography as well as post-production and visual communication in fashion at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She efficiently balances between scientific work, creative productions and life in a small city, where he can go everywhere by bike.
PRESS AND BOOKS
2022
/ WHAT’S NEXT / Monograph / ISBN: 978-83-63-072-86-5 / print
/ DESIGN ALIVE / print
/ VOGUE ITALIA / print, no. 858
/ FORBES/ NEWSWEEK / print
/ KMAG / print, issue 108
/ STIR WORLD
/ COEVEL MAGAZINE
2021
/ DEZEEN
/ DESIGNBOOM
/ LS:N – The Future Laboratory
/ L’OFFICIEL TURKEY
/ ArtDog Istanbul
/ THE FASHION STARTER
/ DESIGNBOOM
/ FAST COMPANY
/ HYPE & HYPER
/ THE CALVERT JOURNAL
/ KMAG / print, issue 104
/ SHEAKER MAG / print, issue 03
EXHIBITIONS AND TALKS
2024 / 05 /Poland / “Artificial Paradise. Hybridity in Fashion Photography” solo exhibition at the National Museum in Szczecin – Museum of Contemporary Art
2024/05/ Poland /  series of photographs for the exhibition Łódź Design Festival, collective exhibition
2024/04/ Poland /  “Product/object/clothing”, exhibition and scientific conference entitled: “LIVING AND IMAGINARY PLACES”, Academic Design Center
2024/03-04/ Poland / “Waterness”, collective exhibition at the CENTRALA Gallery in Poznań, collective exhibition
2023 / 02 / Kenia / A month’s stay in Kenya as part of TPAAE program
2023 / 02 / 28 / Kenia / Exhibition at Kenyata Univercity with photography students
2022 / 09.08. – 30.09 / Germany / Polnisches Institut in Berlin / IMAGINE / series of photographs for the exhibition of the Conceptual Design Studio of the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, run by the Kosmos Project
2022 / 02.11 – 11.11 / Poland / WHAT’S NEXT | IMAGINE SZCZECIN 2/3, series of photographs for the exhibition of the Conceptual Design Studio of the Faculty of Design at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, run by the Kosmos Project
2022 / 26 – 29.05 / Niderlande / SIERAAD ART FAIR in Amsterdam / Three portraits for the exhibition „Pictureware”
2022 / 23.09. – 01.10 / Poland / Poznań Design Festival / large-format photography for the main exhibition Laboratory of Welfare
2022 / 10.07 / Poland / Gdynia Design Day / AR installation, work with a group of students
2021 / Poland / Trafo / A SENSE OF TAKING PART. EXPERIENCING DESIGN, Artist talk with dr Iga Węglińska and Mila Łapko,
2021 / 19 – 20.09 / Poland / Łódź Design Festival / FOLLOW THE OBJECT / Exhibition of the Design Department of the Academy of Art in Szczecin
2021 / 02 / Poland / Museum of Modern Art in Szczecin / The series of photographs was created at the Duos Festival in Kenya in 2021, as part of the TPAAE project
2021. 26. 02 / Kenia / Performane in Kilifi, cooperate with Wacu Kihara, Duos Festival TPAAE
2021 / 02 / Kenia / A month’s stay in Kenya as part of TPAAE program