Our regular columnist, Buras, refers this time to the raising controversies over one photo reporters issue – rewarding Tomasz Tomaszewski at the Grand Press Photo festival for his picture and the photo set about Silesia. The second part of the issue concerns Poland. We present two materials by Tomasz Wiech. In the first one the author shows signs of national mourning after the catastrophe in Smoleńsk, with remarkable distance though, without being overwhelmed by emotions widely spread at the time. The other set of his works tells about endeavors to tame modern offices of large corporations by people working there. The pictures of corporate reality correspond with a story presented by Mariusz Forecki showing a gradual fall of Hipolit Cegielski plants in Poznań. The images of the photographer from Poznań are only a fragment of a certain bigger project concerning pop culture of work. The ninth editions closes with an amazing document by Maciej Pisuk telling about inhabitants of the district of Praga in Warsaw. By means of austere, black and white frames he takes us closer to a private world of outcast people, thrown away from the present, modern and rich Warsaw.
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