Go home Polish
Michal Iwanowski
Self-Published
English
Hardcover (two books within 5-piece magnetic cover)
First Edition of 173/1000 (signed)
416 pages (208 each)
210 x 150 mm
2024
ISBN 9781068620300
Go home Polish documents Michal Iwanowski’s 1,900 walk from Wales to Poland in search of a definition of ‘home’ in post-Brexit Europe.
‘Responding to a xenophobic slogan, which spelled ‘go home Polish,’ on a wall in Cardiff, UK, I embarked on a three-month long walk from my home in Wales, to the place of my birth in Poland. My aim was to ask people along the way about their ideas of home, so that I could understand my own position at the intersection between being an immigrant and a citizen, in a politically unstable climate of post Brexit Europe. I photographed and I wrote extensively along the way between Wales, England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Czechia and Poland. Since completing the walk, I have exhibited the photographs in a number of solo and group shows, but the written account of the people and stories is yet to be shared – hence why I feel making this book is very important. It will not only complete the Go home Polish project, but also make it available to wider audiences, outside of the gallery space.’ – Michal Iwanoswki.
Epilogue by Aleksandra Lun, translated from the Spanish by Tim Welch. Designed by Olga Lacna. Cover image by Lynsey Smith. Text editing by Emma Geliot. Colour separation by Tomasz Kubaczyk.
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About the Artist
Michal Iwanowski (b. 1977, Świebodzice, Poland) is a photographic artist based in Cardiff, Wales. Iwanowski studied a MFA in Documentary Photography, University of Wales in 2008.
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