Włodzimierz Puchalski (1909 Mosty Wielkie near Lviv - 1979 Wyspa Króla), Lynx, 1960s.

Gelatin-silver print/photographic paper
Dimensions: 29.7 x 39.5 cm
Signed p.d.: 'W. Puchalski'

Biography
Naturalist, photographer, director of nature films. He was the first to describe nature photography as "bloodless hunting". Among other things, he photographed the floodplain of the Narew River in Tykocin, with which he was strongly associated. His father practiced animal and landscape photography. In 1931 he enrolled at the Lviv Polytechnic in Dublany at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, graduating as an agronomy engineer. From 1933 to 1936 he was an assistant to Prof. Witold Romer at the Department of Photochemistry of the Lviv Polytechnic, with whom he made films together and developed a method for making nature films. He titled his first nature film "Bloodless Hunting." In 1936, he was the author of the first nature and hunting exhibition in Poland. During World War II, he worked as a forester in the Sandomierz Forest. After liberation, he began working in the Department of Genetics. In 1946, he organized the Cracow Film Institute. In 1949, he began working at the Institute of Zootechnics of the Jagiellonian University, where he created a department for photo-film documentation of animals. From 1956, he worked at the Educational Film Studio in Lodz as a cinematographer and director. In 1957 and 1958 he took part in two Arctic expeditions to Spitsbergen. He retired in 1976. In 1978 he went to Antarctica with an expedition organized by the Polish Academy of Sciences. He died while taking photographs on King George Island and was buried there. He was a daltonist and almost all of his films and photographs are black and white. The exceptions are color photos from his last expedition to Antarctica.