Guided tour led by the exhibition curator, Tomasz Strug

Chris Schwarz was a British photographer and the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum, which he established in 2004. His first visit to Poland took place many years before the opening of the Museum.

However, in May 1981, he came here as a freelance photojournalist wanting to document the realities of the communist country where the Solidarity movement had emerged less than a year earlier. During his short stay, he worked mainly in Warsaw and Lublin as well as in smaller towns and in the countryside on the way between these two cities.

We will hear from the exhibition’s curator about the first photographs Chris Schwarz took in Poland as well as about Poland in May 1981.

In Polish. Free admission.
Space is limited, registration required: zapisy@galiciajewishmuseum.org