Rafał Milach is a Polish visual artist and photographer, born in 1978 in Gliwice and based in Warsaw. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2003 and from the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, and he lectures in photography at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice.
His work looks at the tension between society and power, especially in the former Eastern Bloc. His books include 7 Rooms (2011), which won the Pictures of the Year International Best Photography Book Award, In the Car with R (2012), Black Sea of Concrete (2013), The Winners (2014), The First March of Gentlemen (2017) and I Am Warning You (GOST Books, 2021). His exhibition Refusal was a finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
In 2006 he co-founded the Sputnik Photos collective, and in 2019 the Archive of Public Protests. He joined Magnum Photos as a nominee in 2018 and is now a full member.
