Originally from Gdynia, Poland’s main port, our story is marked by migration. Like many polish families which spread around the world, ours split itself between France and Poland during times of communism. We, two cousins, grew up parallelly in each country without knowing that much each other, until we both...
Jacek Fota: PKiN
The Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw – less and less a symbol of Stalinist domination, more and more an icon of the city. It evokes strong emotions all the while remaining largely unexplored, and as such a tad alien. At the time of planning, in 1952, the monumental...
Hanna Jarzabek: Patriotic Games
In recent years Polish public schools have developed “Military Profile Classes”, an educational program destined to teenagers between 16 and 19 years old. Around 2000 schools across the country offer such courses, some allowing enrollment even at the age of 13. The program, considered a “pedagogical innovation”, is developed within...
Chiara Raffo: The Wolfsschanze
The Wolfsschanze was the most famous and most used Führer Haupt Quartier of Hitler, who spent a lot of time there to coordinate the troops during the invasion of Russia. Wolfsschanze is derived from "Wolf", a self-adopted nickname of Hitler. The top secret, high security site was in the Masurian...
Kamil Sleszynski: Lost Place
The Catholic Centre for Education and Addiction Therapy Metanoia exists since 2000. The facility helps young people addicted to drugs and alcohol. Located in the Knyszynska Forest (Poland), occupies the former administration building Agroma – plants which in the past produced agricultural machinery, home appliances, and probably also weapons... Unfortunately...
Interview with documentary photographer Patryk Karbowski
Patryk Karbowski was born in 1989. Graduated from the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź (M.A. in Photography at the Film and TV Direction Department). He is mainly interested in the documentary photography which he uses to describe social phenomena, present in the the...
Kilian Schönberger: The Crooked Forest
This pine grove is one of the most unusual forests in Central Europe. The so-called Crooked Forest (Polish: Krzywy Las) is a grove of oddly-shaped pine trees located outside Gryfino, West Pomerania, Poland. The grove was planted around 1930, when its location was still within the German province of Pomerania....
Josef Koudelka – Invasion 68 Prague
In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theatre photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as...
Warsaw’s First Photographers. Beyer, Brandel, Fajans
Portraits of 19th-century Warsaw, captured by three pioneers of Polish photography – Karol Beyer, Maksymilian Fajans and Konrad Brandel – are to be exhibited at Ks. Jan Twardowski square until 18th October, 2015. The exhibition will showcase the oldest photographs of Warsaw, primarily showing the Royal Route – from Three...