‘I love Poland’, says Michał Szlaga, who has posted travel photographs to his blog for over a decade. After graduation, he had hoped to earn a living from art, but later admitted that, as it turned out, there was no real market for it in Poland. In the end, he started working for newspapers, for which he took frequent trips around the country.
His photography gave us behind-the-scenes shots of politicians, views from car windows, and couples kissing at parties. Szlaga took photos spontaneously and, since he never restricted himself to key moments, was able to capture a wealth of random detail. The works shared on his blog have a lo-fi aesthetic, since they were taken on a compact Olympus Mju-II analogue camera.
During one of his journeys, he photographed a man staring out of a train window. He is dishevelled, with a discreet moustache and a checked shirt tucked into his trousers. In an interview for Wysokie Obcasy, when asked what kind of things he had seen while travelling around Poland, Szlaga replied: