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.