Viktor Tatarczuk, a former Polish military officer, was a Soviet prisoner of war from 1944 to 1945 at the end of World War II in Poland. A survivor of the Katyn Massacre in 1943, he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp in Germany before being transferred to a POW camp in Czechoslovakia. After World War II, he escaped from the communist regime and immigrated to the United States. In 1947, Tatarczuk enrolled at New York University and earned a master's degree in psychology
In 1959 he earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City, and then taught at the University of Miami and New York University.
To me, the world and art of photography is to capture emotion, feelings and moments; and share it with the world. I master the art when I am capable of awaking emotion in other people through my images.Viktor Tatarczuk
My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.Viktor Tatarczuk
