A magical place surrounded by water, seemingly without borders, and at the same time, a country where most people think about how to escape.
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Just stepping onto the curb from a wide, asphalt street is enough to instantly travel back in time and begin a journey through a world that is hard to imagine. Poisoned, destroyed, stinking with rot and covered in living bacteria. In 1995, the authorities of Manila in the Philippines closed an overflowing landfill and moved the people working there to a piece of land that was then a dumping ground for ...
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37C, 87% humidity WARNING Today's weather could pose a serious threat to your health.
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SINGLE IMAGES There are things that are facts, because they have to be facts, because nothing makes sence otherwise. Several selected photos.
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MARTIAL LAW IN POLAND, 1981-1983 The pictures presented in this gallery were made in 1981 and 1982, when the Martial Law introduced by the Communist government was in force in Poland. Shooting on the street was forbidden at that time and was punishable by imprisonment for up to 5 years. Imprisoned opposition activists with cameras that I was able to smuggle into a prison took two of those pictures. I present ...
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GYPSIES, DIFFERENT PEOPLE JUST LIKE US Traditionally perceived as strangers, surrounded by distrust, or even despite, they have always existed as isolated groups on the margins of developing European communities - even though their contribution to the general cultural heritage, especially in music, dance and various handicrafts, is unquestionable. My intention was to tell, in visual language, the history of a stateless nation, dispersed throughout the almost entire world and establishing, wherever ...
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A STONE’S THROW Old estates nestled in the Polish landscape are places marked by tragedy. First, right after the war, if the estates were nationalized people lost their country and patrimony, they were expelled from their homes and the family interest in the estate was eradicated; half a century later, the structural collapse of these estates brought the occupants equal amounts of poverty, feelings of harm, and a sense of exclusion ...
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IN THE CENTER Presented photographs are personal subjective view, and are taken from my book, which I produced as a donation to the Children’s Memorial Health Center - the biggest children hospital in Poland. The suffering of children gives rise to frustration and sometimes anger at my personal helplessness. Questions come to mind, which have no answers and only hope remains that those who battle devotedly to save the life of a ...
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HADES. Upper Silesia, Poland This series of photographs was taken from March until August 2009. It was my intention to pay homage to people performing hard manual labor. The workers. I chose the Upper Silesia where the work ethos, traditions and related customs seemed to be most alive, apparent and colorful. Poland is changing fast and many of my photographs depict tasks, places and objects which are becoming the thing of the ...
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