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.
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Konrad Grajner, graphic artist, photographer, musician, portrait at his home
„I come from ?dz« and I moved to Warsaw step by step. First I came here for punk concerts, later I started a photography course at a school on Spokojna Street. At the same time I worked in ?dz« as a graphic artist in the editorial office of a photo magazine, POZYTYW, so I needed an evening course which would not collide with my work. There was nothing like this in my city and Warsaw is close to ?dz« (less than 130 km). The school on Spokojna Street gave me a lot of technical knowledge, but I felt that photography was more than nice pictures, so I went on studying in Warsaw at the European Academy of Photography. I wanted my photos to show and evoke emotions, and also I wanted to get to know people who have a similar view on photography.
In 2002 I moved to Warsaw because I did not feel like commuting by train any more and, apart from that, there were changes in the office so I needed a new job. In ?dz« the job market related to my education was tiny, so moving to Warsaw was unavoidable. It was the only city I considered as I had friends here, and I also thought that Warsaw and ?dz« were really alike; two cities in the center of Poland with the same bloc