Michał Cała was born in 1948 in Toruń (Poland). Having graduated from Warsaw Polytechnics, he moved to Silesia, and from 1975 to 1992 he photographed the silesian landscape. The result of his work was a series called “Silesia”. In 2007 he presented series “Silesia” at 2. Foto Festival Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Heidelberg and he won first place in Pilsner International Photo Awards 2007, category: “Industrial”. Also in 2007 British Journal of Photography published articles about him and his work. In the same year he took part in the exhibition presenting 100 most important Polish photographers in 20th century (Warsaw). Since 2017, he is represented by MMX Gallery in London. In 2018 series “Silesia” was exhibited in Blue Sky Gallery in Portland (USA)