What started as a simple perusal of a bad photograph and its accompanying article in a tabloid magazine, led Kuba Kaminski on a five-year mission to pursue a fascinating documentary project just 150 kilometers east of Warsaw on the eastern border of Polan
What started as a simple perusal of a bad photograph and its accompanying article in a tabloid magazine, led Kuba Kaminski on a five-year mission to pursue a fascinating documentary project just 150 kilometers east of Warsaw on the eastern border of Poland and Belorussia. The subject of the tabloid article and photo was the healing and mystical powers of a little-known group of primarily women in the border area of Podlasie, Poland, known as “The Whisperers”. This was enough of a teaser for Kaminski to utilize his extensive journalistic investigative talents to embark on a photographic exploration of people who believe they possess a gift from God, giving them the power to heal all kinds of diseases and physical pain. Knowing that he needed assistance in establishing an element of trust as he began his exploration of these “healers”, he teamed up with a local anthropologist who had been raised in one of the villages in the region where they practice.
The Warsaw-based photographer Kuba Kaminski went to a remote region in northeast Poland to find a mysterious group said to have special powers, known as “Whisperers.”
In remote northeastern Poland there lives a group of elderly Orthodox devotees who are said to possess special powers. They can heal the sick, cast out demons — even still a foe’s heart. Living at a mystical crossroad of Christian faith and folkloric superstition, they consider themselves members of the church, though the church does not.
