She is the middle child of three, with an older sister and a younger brother.] Her mother, Marzena Wasikowska, is a Polish-born photographer, while her father, John Reid, is an Australian photographer and collagist. In 1998, when she was eight years old, Wasikowska and her family moved to Szczecin, Poland for a year, after her mother received a grant to produce a collection of work based on her experience of having emigrated to Australia in 1974 at the age of eleven.[9] Wasikowska and her siblings took part in the production as subjects; she said to Johanna Schneller of the Toronto Globe and Mail in July 2010, "I always had fun being photographed by my mum. We never had to smile or perform. We weren't always conscious of being photographed. We'd just do our thing, and she'd take pictures of us.” The family also traveled through France, Germany, and Russia during this period. 
