Michal Solarski
“POLES APART”
It is believed that around two million Poles have arrived in Britain since the EU borders were thrown open in May 2004 - the influx greater in number than the population of Warsaw. Presently, sometimes after five years of adapting to British life and fashions for behaviour, they find it difficult to move back and pick up life again in Poland. The returnees find their homes are no longer the same. The Poland they knew from only a few years ago has evolved just as they themselves have changed.
“Poles Apart” is the project about young generation of emigrants, about people torn apart and those living between here and there, my fellow Poles who try to build their lives far away from home. It is about nostalgia, homesickness and separation.
MICHAL SOLARSKI
tel +44(0)7721696465
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography 2008
