Elżbieta Tejchman-Wawrzonowska (born 1934)
 
She grew up in Warsaw. In 1952, she graduated from Warsaw’s Photographic High School. Her teachers included, among others, Marian Dederko and Anatol Węcławski. She taught photography courses at the Warsaw Photographic Society and weekend courses in smaller towns as part of a project organised by the Na przełaj youth weekly. In 1959, head of the organisational committee of the Step Into Modernity International Photographic Exhibition at Galeria Krzywe Koło in Warsaw. She was close with the milieu of the Grupa-55 collective, especially with Zbigniew Dłubak. She started publishing her own pictures in the Fotografia monthly where, for several months in 1968, she had her own column. She published there short texts and sets of her own pictures of didactic nature to show the potential of artistic photography.
In 1965, Tejchman got a job at the Institute of Construction Industry Organisation and Mechanisation, thus gaining virtually unrestricted freedom in photographing the urban-space subjects. The 1966 exhibition, at the National Museum in Warsaw, of photographs of the works made during the 1st Biennial of Spatial Forms in Elbląg featured eighty pictures by Tejchman. In 1969, joined the Association of Polish Art Photographers (ZPAF) and became active in the neo-avant-garde movement. Took part in the exhibition Experimental Photographers, a landmark event for modern photography, which she also comprehensively documented. She also documented virtually almost all exhibitions that took place at Warsaw’s Galeria Współczesna, where she also exhibited.
In the 1970s she made numerous sequential series devoted to urban architecture, such as the twelve-picture series Zamieniecka Street. In 1984, she left Poland and settled in London. Shortly afterwards she married Wojciech Wawrzonowski, a renowned photographer. She has continued photographing, the subject of her most recent works are the streets of London.