Natalia Laska has over twenty years of experience in journalism, specialising in social reportage and photography.
In Poland, she published in weekly newspapers: Polityka, Newsweek, Magazyn (Gazeta Wyborcza) and Elle as well as in German; Frauenrat, Tazz, and Polen+. Her work also published in numerous travel journals.
She has worked for several TV talk shows on Polish broadcasters.
Among other projects, she curated a Polish-German media project ‘Bauhaus Movement in Israel’ in 2001 and the video project based on the archives of Simon Laks, a composer and the Auschwitz Orchestra Conductor (2013 in Paris, France).
In America, she co-directed The New World Manifesto – a video series documenting the lives of political activists and ‘Burning Man Festival’, Nevada, USA, 2012.
Natalia’s first documentary in Australia - ‘Sweet Running Machines’ - documentary about steam engine community in Tasmania, premiered at BOFA Festival 2015 in Launceston. Her short documentary ‘The Piano Tuner’ was broadcast on ABC Compass. She also made a short film about a soccer team made of refugees and misfits in Tasmania and their plight to find a training ground.
She has a bachelor’s degree in justice studies (University of Tasmania) and currently completing a Master of Arts in Indigenous Research (Charles Darwin University).
She is based ‘one foot” in Darwin, NT, Australia, ‘the other foot’ in Hobart Tasmania and her heart is somewhere in the Tatra Mountains, Poland.