Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

For my final post I wanted to share some new photographs I have been making recently. The work is still quite new and in progress. I've moved to Warsaw about one year ago and have been photographing scenes from my life trying to adjust to both a language barrier and a different culture, as well as scenes from my parent's lives who are retired now in a small village. I had moved here because I felt something unfinished in photographing my parents, and I had a window in my life where I could leave the U.S. I've flipped the script in a way, as when they emigrated to the U.S., much of their dealings with the outside world were conducted through their children, who had a mastery of English, and I find myself in a reverse situation very often. Coming here has been in many ways been eye-opening. I live by myself in the city and find I speak Polish no better than a child. It should encourage me to learn, but it had the reverse effect of wanting to be isolated. It's made me grow a stronger interest in immigrant culture, and the notion of assimilation that the English speaking world so rarely experiences now.