Project Detail: Psinco

Contest:

Reportage and Documentary 2020



Brand:

LuganoPhotoDays



Author:

Katarzyna Slesinska

 

Project Info

Psinco

It's a documentary project about a post-German village in the Opolskie Voivodeship in Poland, that's getting abandoned.

It's a story about a place I've lived in since I was a child. It's a post-German village in the Opolskie Voivodeship in Poland. The majority of young people moved away to bigger cities. The village is mainly populated by seniors, many of them have already passed away and a lot of houses are abandoned. I've been taking these pictures in the period when I was moving out of my parents. I wanted to say goodbye to the place I grew up in. I've decided to take the pictures in B&W because I associated them with my past. The title refers to the dialectal Silesian word ''Psińco'' which means ‚’' nothing''.

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