It all started in 2014, when Polish documentary photographer Piotr Wójcik created the Polish Freedoms exhibition. The project was his attempt to answer a question: How do Poles understand freedom 25 years after the democratic transition of 1989?
A year later he decided to complement the project with a Russian collection, together with his friend Tomasz Kizny. The photographers interviewed Muscovites to find out how they define freedom, both personally and as a social category. The Freedom exhibition is the effect of their collaboration.
On 30th November 2015 at 19.00, there will be a debate titled Poland-Russia: the experience of freedom in contemporary Poles and Russians narrations featuring guest Prof. Karol Modzelewski, author of Barbarian Europe.
The event is organised by the Polish Culture Centre in Moscow with the support of the Documentary Photography Centre FOTODOC, Picture Doc Fund and Culture.pl.
Freedom Exhibition
26th November to 31st December 2015
Sakharov Center
Zemlyanoy Val, 57
105120 Moscow, Russia
Source: press materials. Written by PW, translated by ND, 23 Nov 2015