Kamil Czaja

Kamil Czaja

Founder & CEO, GoPackshot

Kamil Czaja is the founder and CEO of GoPackshot, a top-5 European fashion content production studio in Wrocław, serving 120+ brands including Zalando, OTTO, Bestseller, and CCC. He has spent 16 years producing visual content for fashion e-commerce and today leads 130+ people delivering over 2 million SKUs a year.

Kamil started as a photographer in Wrocław and built GoPackshot from a single studio in 2010 into a top-5 European fashion content production company. Sixteen years later, his team of 130+ people delivers over 2,000,000 SKUs per year to 120+ fashion brands, from enterprise retailers like Zalando, OTTO, Bestseller, CCC and Marc O’Polo to Scandinavian designer labels and Holy Fashion Group.

What Kamil is known for inside the industry, first and foremost, is fashion e-commerce itself. Sixteen years running Europe's largest fashion content studio taught him to read product detail pages the way traders read charts: what wins, what loses, and where small visual choices quietly move millions of euros of revenue between brands. Photography is the craft he came from, the studio and the AI infrastructure are the instruments he uses, and e-commerce expertise is the thing underneath all of it.

He runs GoPackshot on one operating principle: product presentations must be aesthetic enough to make customers buy, and authentic enough to make them keep what they ordered. Every asset the studio ships, from a six-image PDP on Zalando to AI face-swap across twenty regional variations, gets measured against that rule.

Kamil is a rare operator in European fashion content. He spent sixteen years in fashion content production before adding AI as production infrastructure, and that sequence matters. GoPackshot’s AI services (face swap, automated product variations, AI-generated motion) are live on OTTO and Zalando today, supervised by fashion professionals who know the difference between a commercially viable image and one that only looks clever.

He writes and speaks about three topics:

  • AI as infrastructure, not authorship. Hybrid production where AI scales and people decide.
  • The Decision Confidence Model. Content that eliminates buyer doubt, measured against conversion and returns together.
  • Find / Convert / Keep. The three places where content either earns you sales or costs you money.

He is a speaker and sponsor at European fashion and e-commerce conferences:

He has been a guest on the Duo Digitale, AI Commerce, and ZSZ podcasts.

Articles by Kamil Czaja

CIFF 67: official partner again, and the two topics we will talk about in Copenhagen

CIFF 67: official partner again, and the two topics we will talk about in Copenhagen

CIFF 67 official partner announcement: EU AI Act + EU withdrawal rules as floor topics

Was AI involved? What the EU AI Act changes for product imagery in fashion e-commerce

Was AI involved? What the EU AI Act changes for product imagery in fashion e-commerce

What the EU AI Act (Article 50) changes for AI-generated product imagery in fashion e-commerce, and how to prepare before 2 August 2026.

Video on the PDP: Why Zalando and ASOS Started Rewarding It

Video on the PDP: Why Zalando and ASOS Started Rewarding It

Zalando and ASOS already reward video in PDP ranking. The brands still treating it as a campaign format are leaving conversion on the table.

AI Face Swap: 84% Cost Savings and What the Data Actually Shows

AI Face Swap: 84% Cost Savings and What the Data Actually Shows

The 84% cost reduction from AI face swap is real. So is the 14–69% hallucination range when you run it without proper supervision. Here is what the full picture looks like.

Founders Mind: between the founder’s vision and the team’s reality

Founders Mind: between the founder’s vision and the team’s reality

In May we took a talk to a cinema in Warsaw about the part of AI adoption that rarely makes the case study: what happens inside the team once the founder has announced it. Kamil Czaja and Klaudia Kosmala on stage, one CEO view and one COO view.

Why Customers Return What They Chose to Buy

Why Customers Return What They Chose to Buy

A customer who clicks Add to Cart has already decided. The return happens when the box opens and reality doesn't match the screen.

[ECD 2026 conclusions] Demand Is Down. AI Promises Are Everywhere. Here's What Most Brands Miss.

[ECD 2026 conclusions] Demand Is Down. AI Promises Are Everywhere. Here's What Most Brands Miss.

Notes from ECD Munich 2026: why the cheap AI content pitch lands so well right now, what it leaves out, and what fashion brands should do about it.

ECD Munich 2026: gopackshot as a main sponsor, and what we are bringing to the stage

ECD Munich 2026: gopackshot as a main sponsor, and what we are bringing to the stage

gopackshot is a main sponsor of ECD Munich 2026 on 12 May: a masterclass on Find, Convert, Keep and an Expert Deep Dive on the ROI of applied AI.

AI in Fashion Content Production: Where It Delivers and Where It Fails

AI in Fashion Content Production: Where It Delivers and Where It Fails

Where AI genuinely delivers in fashion content production, where it fails without expert control, and how to tell them apart before it reaches your catalogue.

Ghost Mannequin Photography for Fashion Brands: The Complete Outsourcing Guide

Ghost Mannequin Photography for Fashion Brands: The Complete Outsourcing Guide

Ghost mannequin photography reduces fashion e-commerce return rates by 20-30% and lifts conversion by up to 45%. Here is how to evaluate outsourcing partners and what enterprise-grade production actually looks like.

Why Your Product Images Lose Sales Before Anyone Sees the Product

Why Your Product Images Lose Sales Before Anyone Sees the Product

Fashion brands think their product photography is "good enough" because guidelines are met. But meeting guidelines and selling are different things. Here is the pattern that separates underperforming brands from the ones that win.

How Technical Fashion Brands Scale Content Without Losing Product Integrity

How Technical Fashion Brands Scale Content Without Losing Product Integrity

97% of Icelanders own at least one 66 North piece. Scaling that brand equity into digital content for new European markets required rethinking every aspect of product photography, from sample handling to AI integration.

AI in Product Photography: What Works, What Fails, and What Fashion Brands Actually Need in 2026

AI in Product Photography: What Works, What Fails, and What Fashion Brands Actually Need in 2026

Five AI techniques that are actually in production in 2026, what each one costs you in quality, and what fashion brands need in place before adopting them.

Why Fashion Brands Are Outsourcing Product Photography in 2026

Why Fashion Brands Are Outsourcing Product Photography in 2026

In-house fashion photography studios cost $200,000-400,000/year in overhead and cannot scale for peak season. Here is what the numbers actually say about outsourcing, and what to look for in a content production partner.

gopackshot at CIFF 66: notes from an official partner

gopackshot at CIFF 66: notes from an official partner

CIFF 66 official partnership recap (backdated 2026-01-30)

Studio + AI: How Modern Fashion Content Production Actually Works

Studio + AI: How Modern Fashion Content Production Actually Works

Seven phases from moodboard to delivery: what happens in the studio, where AI takes over the background, and who checks the result before you see it.

Kamil Czaja on AI in product photography (podcast)

Kamil Czaja on AI in product photography (podcast)

How to use AI in product photography without pushing returns up: Kamil Czaja on the AI Commerce Podcast, on authenticity, trust and where AI still fails.

Good product photography tells a story | podcast

Good product photography tells a story | podcast

Kamil Czaja on the Art of E-commerce podcast: what makes a thumbnail work, where AI helps in production, and why the photographer’s job did not disappear.

What makes a product photo work in fashion e-commerce

What makes a product photo work in fashion e-commerce

Colour, styling, retouching, shadow and detail shots: the five things a customer judges before deciding whether your product is worth the risk.

Flat lay or ghost mannequin: how to choose for your catalogue

Flat lay or ghost mannequin: how to choose for your catalogue

When a flat lay is enough and when a ghost mannequin earns its cost, decided by the product, the buyer and the marketplace the photo has to pass.

How AI changed fashion product photography

How AI changed fashion product photography

Where AI entered fashion product photography, what it took over first, and which parts of the process still need a person to sign off on the result.

Test shoots: how to judge a photo studio before you commit

Test shoots: how to judge a photo studio before you commit

Most studios offer a free test session. What to send, what to ask for back, and how to read the result before you sign a production contract.

Image requirements for Zalando, About You and Breuninger

Image requirements for Zalando, About You and Breuninger

What Zalando, About You and Breuninger expect from product photos: formats, backgrounds, model shots, and the details that get a listing rejected.

How to organise a model photo shoot, step by step

How to organise a model photo shoot, step by step

From the first moodboard to delivered files: the steps of a model shoot, what the brand decides, and what a studio takes off your hands.

Model photography for fashion brands: what it changes

Model photography for fashion brands: what it changes

What model photography adds that a packshot cannot, and what to expect from a studio that shoots it for e-commerce rather than for a campaign.

Video in fashion e-commerce: five reasons it sells

Video in fashion e-commerce: five reasons it sells

Why video keeps shoppers on the product page, answers the questions photos leave open, and shows up in the numbers fashion retailers already watch.

Why fast fashion outsources the whole photo process, not half

Why fast fashion outsources the whole photo process, not half

Splitting production between your team and a studio looks cheaper on paper. Six reasons it costs more in practice, seen from inside a production studio.