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Krasnystaw 17.10.2019 Poland
Paulina and Wiktoria, two eighteen-year-olds, students of the secondary technical school in Krasnystaw. They dream of emigrating abroad.

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Warsaw 22.01.2018 Poland
A billboard with the slogan "Abortion kills", located on the main exit route from Warsaw.

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Niepokalanow 08.06.2019 Poland
''Mary's Warriors'' - hundreds of men met in the shrine in Niepokalanów during the accolade of new members of the male-only secular order.

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Koscierzyna 22.09.2019 Poland
Young boys play chess in front of the monument of Józef Wybicki, the author of the words of the Polish national anthem in the center of Kościerzyna, a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

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Warsaw 01.08.2019 Poland
Right-wing activists march through central Warsaw to mark 75 years since Warsaw Uprising.
From a small makeshift stage, the organizers of the march preached nationalist, homophobic slogans. From the left: Norbert Smoliński, the leader of Contra Mundum band singing a song “Beat the Bolshevik, beat!”. Contra Mundum treats his musical activity as a mission, guided by the slogan "God, Honor, Homeland".

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Kadlub Dolny 26.07.2019 Poland
Indulgence in the town of Kadłub Wolny. The residents kneel during a field mass.

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Warsaw 20.10.2017 Poland
A bust of former president Lech Kaczynski, exhibited in Warsaw in 2017 as a monument to the victims of the Smolensk air disaster

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Katowice 15.08.2019 Poland
On the Polish Army Day a parade under the slogan "Faithful to Poland" was held, organized to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Silesian Uprisings and the 99th anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw. Traditionally, it was possible to admire the equipment of the Polish Armed Forces.

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Szaflary 11.08.2019 Poland
Entry to Zakopane (the most popular holiday resort in Polish mountains)

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Pyzdry 15.06.2019 Poland
Marriage of fruit growers from Pyzdry, social activists supporting the local community and children in a Polish village in Moldova.

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Szemrowice 25.07.2019 Poland
A church in centre of a small town Szemrowice

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Wegierki 14.06.2019 Poland
For Poles the family is sacred. In the picture four sisters Nadia, Lena (top) Olga, Milka (bottom), slowly entering adulthood. They live in a small village in central Poland.

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Warsaw 04.05.2019 Poland
Hundreds of men meet at Warsaw Old Town every first Saturday of month for male-only rosary prayer.

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Gola 22.07.2019 Poland
Janusz and Agnieszka from Malopolska state dream of a small house in the Opole region. They are preparing for the first time to go to work in the Netherlands to earn for this purpose.

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Gdansk 18.01.2019 Poland
Mayor of Sopot city Jacek Karnowski (left), Mayor of Warsaw city Rafal Trzaskowski (right), and Mayors of four different Polish cities (behind),, carry a coffin during funeral procession of the late Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz in Gdansk, Poland, 18 January 2019. Mayor of Gdansk Pawel Adamowicz died in hospital on 14 January afternoon from wounds suffered in 13 January evening knife attack - live political murder, in front of cameras, during the 27th finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity in Gdansk.

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Krasnystaw 17.10.2019 Poland
Justyna, a young mother of two boys, living in small village in the Lublin Province. She is a modern, confident woman with liberal views.

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Wlodawa 19.10.2019
A roundabout in Wlodawa, Lubelskie County, in the middle Socialist Realist architecture/sculpture

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Lublin 13.10.2019 Poland
Local headquarters of PiS party. Sylwester Tulajew local leader waiting for the results of parliamentary elections

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Bartoszyce 15.12.2019 Poland
A saleswoman in a neighbourhood store in Bartoszyce presents the most popular volume of alcohol - "Lufka" plastic glasses with a capacity of 40ml" for 1.99zl

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Dzianisz 08.08.2019 Poland
Agnieszka and Tony, a Polish Australian couple try to build a new, seasonal home in the Polish mountains.

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Borki-Kosy 04.08.2019 Poland
The local celebration of the 20th anniversary of agricultural blockades combined with the celebration of the anniversary of the death of the leader of Samoobrona (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), a nationalist, populist, and agrarian political party. The celebrations, in the form of a festival, were financed from private money of local politicians and honored by performances of disco polo music stars.

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Nabroz 16.10.2019 Poland
Mrs. Rozalia Wielosz - survivor of the Volhynian massacre in Teresin

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Warsaw 10.04.2018 Poland
Ceremony of unveiling of the monument to the victims of the Smolensk air disaster, marking the eighth anniversary of the crash of the Polish government plane in Smolensk, Russia, that killed 96 people, including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria, at the Pilsudski Square in Warsaw

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Krywe 09.10.2019 Poland
Mr. Stanislaw lives alone in a valley in the Bieszczady Mountains. Since his wife died his only occupation is watching TV and woodworking.

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Tarnogora 12.10.2019 Poland
Tarnogora, one of the last small villages in which a common pasture has been operating for over a hundred years, where the community members graze their cows in one meadow. Every day, the cows go to the pasture alone and return from it to their barns.

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Borki-Kosy 04.08.2019 Poland
The local celebration of the 20th anniversary of agricultural blockades combined with the celebration of the anniversary of the death of the leader of Samoobrona (Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland), a nationalist, populist, and agrarian political party. The celebrations, in the form of a festival, were financed from private money of local politicians and honored by performances of disco polo music stars.

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Dolhobrody 19.10.2019 Poland
Newly built villa near the border with Belarus in the Lublin county

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Chelm 11.10.2019 Poland
Participants of the Law and Justice party's convention, ending the pre-election campaign.

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Makruty 22.07.2017 Poland
A birch hit by lightning. The birch, a symbolic tree in Polish culture and literature, also became a symbol of the division of Poland after the Smolensk disaster, when the presidential plane crashed into a tree of this species.

How to Rejuvenate an Eagle
Adam Lach

How to Rejuvenate an Eagle” resulted from three and a half years of work and over seventy interviews of photographer Adam Lach and the author Dyba Lach with Poles and Polish citizens.

“We wanted to find out what people's lives really look like, what they believe in, what unites them. In 2017, as a writer-photographer reporting team, we set out to explore and understand our country, its complexity and ambiguity. We traveled 16 000 km in three years. In our journey we were looking for an answer to a question of what shapes Polish identity today. We faced Polish stereotypes rooted in the culture and everyday life. We talked to people, asked about what being a Pole means to them, what is the meaning of community, belonging and strangeness. We have observed that reality is much more complex than TV stories, Facebook feeds and common beliefs.” Adam Lach

“We have also been trying to understand the concept of border, searching for the meaning of the term and trying to find out if it even truly matters in the joined-up world of today, in a member country of the European Union. Because of Polish history, we are very familiar with this term. Borders were changed throughout the ages, the most acute changes appeared in 19th and 20th centuries, because of international agreements, wars, partitions. Today, to the borders we have already known, a new one, tangible, has been added - 1.5 meter sanitary rigor. It appeared just when our journey was coming to an end. Over the three years of our work we found out that borders are quite easy to determine, but very hard to get rid of. They last for many years, remain even after such tragic events as II World War, Holocaust, resettlement, Communism. We realised Poland is a patchwork of societies, religions, nationalities, views, a collection of tribes. For hundreds of years, Poland was an open, diverse, multi-faith country, a mixture of cultures. This has not changed. It is something we need to be reminded of. Yet it seems quite difficult with the society trapped in time.” Dyba Lach

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How to Rejuvenate an Eagle
Adam Lach

How to Rejuvenate an Eagle” resulted from three and a half years of work and over seventy interviews of photographer Adam Lach and the author Dyba Lach with Poles and Polish citizens.

“We wanted to find out what people's lives really look like, what they believe in, what unites them. In 2017, as a writer-photographer reporting team, we set out to explore and understand our country, its complexity and ambiguity. We traveled 16 000 km in three years. In our journey we were looking for an answer to a question of what shapes Polish identity today. We faced Polish stereotypes rooted in the culture and everyday life. We talked to people, asked about what being a Pole means to them, what is the meaning of community, belonging and strangeness. We have observed that reality is much more complex than TV stories, Facebook feeds and common beliefs.” Adam Lach

“We have also been trying to understand the concept of border, searching for the meaning of the term and trying to find out if it even truly matters in the joined-up world of today, in a member country of the European Union. Because of Polish history, we are very familiar with this term. Borders were changed throughout the ages, the most acute changes appeared in 19th and 20th centuries, because of international agreements, wars, partitions. Today, to the borders we have already known, a new one, tangible, has been added - 1.5 meter sanitary rigor. It appeared just when our journey was coming to an end. Over the three years of our work we found out that borders are quite easy to determine, but very hard to get rid of. They last for many years, remain even after such tragic events as II World War, Holocaust, resettlement, Communism. We realised Poland is a patchwork of societies, religions, nationalities, views, a collection of tribes. For hundreds of years, Poland was an open, diverse, multi-faith country, a mixture of cultures. This has not changed. It is something we need to be reminded of. Yet it seems quite difficult with the society trapped in time.” Dyba Lach