2016 / Editorial / Photo Essay

Awaryjniak

  • Photographer
    Jakub Ochnio

"Awaryjniak" - is a set of images telling a story about social house in small city - Jarosław (Poland, near the Ukrainian border). Despite it is located in a center of the city, peophe who living in this place was created specyfic micro-community of closed character. In most of cases people who are here are expecting for decision of city authorities giving them communal flat, but temporary staying turns into almoust limitless waiting. Local government must imitate and mask the entire estate. It is a place where extremly different emotions are mixed, showing both normal everyday life and pathology. People who living here have o problem with food, work, money and consequently with alcohol.