Monika K. Adler is a photographer and avant-garde filmmaker based in London, UK. She was born in Poland. She graduated from The European Academy of Photography in Warsaw and from Wojciech Gerson's National School of Fine Arts.
She moved to Paris in 2004. Her first solo show took place there in January 2005. Since 2012 she has lived and worked in London. She focuses on black and white conceptual and fine art photography.
She first gained attention with Chernobyl of Love (2012). It is a photography series and an art film. She made it in Ukraine, near the ruins of the 1986 nuclear accident.
In 2018 she was nominated for the Royal Photographic Society's Hundred Heroines Award. The project 209 Women chose her to photograph a member of the UK Parliament. The exhibition was shown at the Palace of Westminster in London and at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool in 2018 and 2019. She also worked on First Open for Christie's and on Rankin's 2020 for Sky Arts TV.
Her series The Fictional photographs monuments and sites of power in London. It is inspired by William Gibson's novel The Peripheral.
She is working on two feature films, Sick Bacchus and The First Hour After Violent Death. Sick Bacchus is about pathological consumption among London's wealthy elite.
