Gold 2014 / Book / Documnetry (Non-Pro)

Michael - the man from Pomerania

  • Photographer
    Leszek Paradowski
  • Prizes
    Gold in Book (Series Only)/Documnetry

Michael was born, raised and grew up in Poland, Western Pomerania, you could say that he is Indigenous of lands reclaimed by Poland after World War II. All his life he sacrificed for farm, first helping parents and now after the death of his father takes care of his sick mother. Alone trying to cope with the hardships of every day existence having several acres of land few cows, chicken sand tractor from the time of propaganda success. He is a man who lives in his own world where time has stopped. Every time when I visit Michael I move back in time to another era where everything goes its own rhythm of past. He is aware that here is his place on earth and continues in this belief constantly, sentenced to his consciousness and only sometimes he asks who will milk cows when he will be gone?