Wojciech Cejrowski – a television personality, popular radio journalist, cabaret artist (he himself claims ''I am a comedian''), writer and publicist, satirist of bureaucracy and socialism, photographer and a professional carpenter. But most of all, a traveller, who is greatest passion and goal is to seek out the endangered cultures of the Amazon region.
Cejrowski was born on the 27th, June 1964 in Elbląg. He finished XVII High School by the name of A.F. Modrzejewski in Warsaw, where he attended the same class as Grzegorz Przemyk. Before his spoken Matura exam and right after his written exams he was brutally manhandled at one of Warsaw's police stations and had all of his fingers broken for fighting back during the pacification of his school and taking part in protests against the death of Przemyk.
He studied at several universities: Public School of Theatrical Studies in Warsaw, Catholic University in Lublin (history of art), University of Warsaw (sociologyand archeology and Santa Clara University in California, USA.
He can fluently speak 3 languages: Polish, Spanish (latino) and American English. He can also communicate in Russian and Portuguese.
Cejrowski is known for his radio career during which he has hosted his own programs and worked alongside of well-known people like Wojciech Mann and Krzysztof Materna, his writing publications (mainly political satire and traveller books) and television career. He took part in many programs. His TV career started with the program Non Stop Color, during which he once again had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Wojciech Mann. At the same time he was also coducting WC Quarter, which is probably his most widely known television programme.
During the years 1996-1997 he also recorded a series of programmes about his travels to South America.
His latest programme, ''Among People with a Camera'' (2003-2004) had the fourth biggest group of viewers in Poland – over 2,5 million people.
Undeniably though, his greatest achievements are his worldwide travels.
Wojciech Cejrowski has been organizing voyages to the wildest corners of our planet for 20 years. He has travelled so far to 40 different countries, located on 6 continents. He owns a house in Mexico City, in which he lives from time to time since the 1980s, as well a large residence in the Republic of Ecuador.
His favourite and most often visited place is tha Amazon region (Amazonia), where he always goes with a specific purpose - to document the life of it's residents – the Indians and the Métis people.
He has taken part in, inter alia, a pedestrian march through the undeveloped swampland and forest of Darién Gap, separating Panama's Darién Province in Central America from Colombia in South America, as well as the crossing of the Camel Trophy trail in Guyana in 1996, within which he managed to reach the isolated colonies of the Wai Wai tribe.
He has paddled in Indian canoes through the waters of the virgin jungle. Deprived of contact with civilization for weeks, he has lived among Indians and acted as one of them: he built sheds, hunted, ate what they did or starved with them. He did all these things to gain and save the knowledge of cultures still living in the Stone Age.
