Tomasz Wiech’s Photographs of Poland’s Misplaced Landscapes

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Poland’s Great Adventure

Tomasz Wiech sought to capture the tug between Poland’s socialist past and the country’s free-market present. Melancholy and minimalist, his pictures portray “a land of the giant question mark.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/polands-great-adventure/?pagewanted=all

“Poland is a country of endless Carnival and great disappointment. The Carnival is obvious, and the disappointment is explicable, because things were expected to be different.”