Kacper Lisowski was born in Warsaw in 1972. He is a holder of the Stanisław Wyspiański State Award for photography and a graduate of both the Cinematography Department of the Leon Schiller National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź and the Wajda School’s Development Lab programme. His cinematography debut came with Łukasz Barczyk’s I’m Looking at You, Mary (Patrzę na Ciebie, Marysiu), after which he worked as a camera operator and cinematographer, both in Poland and abroad, for a number of years. He has numerous documentaries to his credit, including Agnieszka Łukasiak’s Forgotten (Bortglömda), Paweł Łoziński’s Chemo (Chemia), which won the Prix Europa for the Best Documentary in 2009 and Jerzy Śladkowski’s The Real End of the Cold War (Prawdziwy koniec zimnej wojny). He has also