Suwałki-Augustów Lakeland, as well as the neighbouring regions of the Biebrza and Mazury Garbate, is a dreamland for both professional and amateur photographers.
This is why this part of Poland has become an area where famous photographers practice their art. Already before the war Jan Bułhak used to photograph Suwałki Region and Włodzimierz Puchalski organised here "bloodless hunting" after the war. His work was continued by such masters of natural photography as Włodzimierz Łapiński living by Lake Wigry, the author of albums Pojednanie z lasem (Reconciliation with the Forest) and Wielki bór (A Big Forest). Also Wiktor Wołkow from Supraśl in Knyszyńska Primeval Forest has been "hunting" with his camera in Biebrza Region and Suwałki Region for more than thirty years. He is the author of such albums as Biebrza (The Biebrza), Krzyże (Crosses) and dozens of exhibitions. In the last few years, Darek Karp from Augustów, Jan Krasnodębski from Sejny and younger photographers such as Jarosław Borejszo, Piotr Malczewski, Lech Krzysztofiak and Marek Miś collected a lot of trophies hunting animals with their cameras. Augustów, Romincka, Borecka Primeval Forests and the Biebrza valley are areas of forests, rivers and lakes abound in a variety of animals and plants. They provide unique conditions in which nature can be photographed and where one can hunt with a camera such animals as elk, deer, wolf, beaver, white-tailed eagle, crane, black grouse, wood grouse, dragon fly, butterfly, cockchafer, reptiles and amphibians. One can also take photographs of sunrises and sunsets, mist patches, villages and idyllic landscape. Diversified postglacial lie of Suwałki Region is so attractive, that one is always tempted to preserve all its picturesque corners on a film. Regional photographers from Suwałki, like Stanisław Woś, Piotr Bułanow and Ewa Przytuła who are the authors of many exhibitions across the country, know it very well. However, Suwałki Region landscape with its natural beauty is not only for professional photographers. An amateur, tourist, holiday-maker, anyone sensitive to the beauty of nature, anyone who will remember to take his camera on his tour, will find his own paths and things worth photographing. It might be the beginning of a new passion. After all, even the best photographers started as amateurs!