Portraits – Stories Category
“Promised City” project description:
Almost half of the citizens of Warsaw are the newcomers who have arrived here to make their dreams of career and better life come true. It is Warsaw where the unemployment is the lowest, the salaries are the highest, the schools are the best, the offer for consumerism is the biggest in the country. I have been living in Warsaw since I was born, but lots of my friends are strangers here. I asked them when they arrived, what for, whether their dreams came true, and what they think of living in the capital. I wanted to portray each of them in their professional environment but some chose other places which had become important for them in Warsaw.
this photo description:
Marcin Dzierzanowski, journalist, portrait at the SaviourÕs Square
“Warsaw is like toxic love for me. You usually complain about it, you are fed up with it, and you feel that without it your life would be easier. Sometimes it does not let you sleep. But, at the same time, you cannot leave it. Because this is love Ð it gives you strength, power and meaning.
I came to Warsaw fourteen years ago. From Mon«ki Ð a small town in the area of Podlasie. From the very heart of so-called Green Lungs of Poland Ð the least populated, the most ecological, and traditional, zone in the country.
But I like people, traffic, noise and variety. I have never been keen on long forest strolls. This may have been the reason why I have always felt, since childhood, that I would move to the capital, though I have never thought of it as escape. And because of that I have not lost touch with my friends from Mon«ki Ð they have influenced me a lot, not Warsaw.
In the capital I finished my really cool studies, then I found an interesting job as a political journalist. You can even say I was successful in what I was doing. But in this same city I experienced the deepest disappointments Ð professional, social, and emotional.
Still, Warsaw keeps giving me power. I