Poland - In search of diamonds

by Tomasz Wiech

Photographs: Tomasz Wiech

Text: Michal Olszewski

Publisher: Self Published

120 pages

Pictures: 41 color illustrations

Year: 2012

Price: 33 €

Comments: 17,7 x 21,5 cm; hardcover; polish

Poland is the country where I was born and where I live. I created project “Poland. In search of diamonds” because I was always amazed with places and situations that were close to my heart. Situations that I saw and passed by every day. For the past years, since 1989, when the communism was abolished, Poland is in constant process of changes, trying to catch up with western European countries. What fascinates me most, is a sort of absurd, which shows off, while those changes take place. When old meets new, poverty meets wealth, and tradition is up against new order. Contrast, humour and ludicrous situations, in my opinion, show best what Poland really is. (Tomasz Wiech)

more books tagged »Polish« | >> see all

• 

  Beginnings - Początki
  by Tomasz Wysocki
  Euro 25

• 

  Side Effects (first edition - signed)
  by Kacper Kowalski
  sold out

• 

  IS(not) (last signed review copy)
  by Sputnik Photos
  Euro 125

• 

  Photocopies from Tokyo (signed)
  by Misha Kominek
  sold out

• 

  Black Sea of Concrete (signed + print - last copy)
  by Rafal Milach
  sold out

• 

  Fragile - World Press Photo
  by Joop Swart Masterclass 2007
  sold out

more books tagged »Eastern Europe« | >> see all

• 

  Boiko (signed + print)
  by Jan Brykczynski
  sold out

• 

  Less Than One (signed)
  by Alexander Gronsky
  sold out

• 

  Associated Nostalgia (signed)
  by Eugenia Maximova
  Euro 35

• 

  Skopje with Eyes Wide Open
  by Ivan Blazhev
  sold out

• 

  Sevastopol (signed)
  by Milan Bureš
  Euro 22

• 

  Stand BY
  by Sputnik Photos
  Euro 33

Random selection from the Virtual bookshelf josefchladek.com

• 
  Volker Heinze - Ahnung
  
• 
  Gerhard Puhlmann - Die Stalinall...
  
• 
  Keld Helmer-Petersen - 122 Farve...
  
• 
  Claudia Andujar & George Love - ...