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Once Upon A Poland
by Chris Orlet

Poland, 1970-75

When my wife was a little girl in Poland she loved cameras. She would take the small Russian-made aparat where ever she went. Sometimes to places where we in America would not welcome photographers, like funeral homes. As a child Aneta Bielawska must have had a morbid fascination with funerals and never went to one without bringing along her little black box. The flip side of funerals were parades: May Day parades, wedding parades. One gets the impression from her photos that May Day Parades and other Soviet-styled holidays were not joyous occasions for most Poles, but rather a mandatory drudgery. Wedding parades, on the other hand, were what you would expect them to be, a time for women to cry and men to anticipate the warm flow of vodka. Nowadays my wife lets me take the photos and much rather enjoys being on the other end of the lens.

 

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