Waiting for the snow

Waiting for the Snow is a long-term photographic project about Polish migration to South America during the partitions of Poland in the 19th century and the interwar period. Using our own photographs, archival documents, and family albums, we create a multi-layered visual narrative. On one hand, we collect stories rooted in the collective memory of Polish communities, focusing on their country of origin and the early years of settlement in a new homeland—questions that formed the basis of the project’s first chapter. On the other hand, we examine processes of creolization and cultural exchange, observing how Slavic heritage has intertwined with South American contexts to produce forms of identity shaped by reconstruction, fiction, and imagination.

Worth its weight in water

In this series, I explore the “wild” corners of the city I live in—Poznań, Poland—where streams, rivers, brooks, ponds, and small bodies of water flow. Using a camera trap, I observe who inhabits these spaces and how urban life unfolds among those who are often overlooked in spatial planning. Through photography, I aim to create awe-inspiring landscapes that draw on aesthetics we associate more with national parks or nature reserves than with urban underbrush. In doing so, I hope that, perhaps through beauty rather than cautionary tales, we might recognize the other species with whom we must form communities in order to live.