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X-Y transition - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

Transition

Sexual revolution seemed to be over, yet there is a new revolution within the topic. Transgender* people are coming on the floor. People who advocate that self identification as a woman or a man varies from the genetic sex. It is about people who despite the strong ostracism, intolerance, lack of knowledge and misunderstanding and many other problems are strong enough to fight for their proper identity. Sometimes it is a struggle against the communities their live in, sometimes against law, and above all it is a struggle against nature which has made a mistake.

Shop the kid - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

Shop the kid

Info Consumption consumes the childhood. Kids are assisting their parents during the weekend shopping. Instead of playing with their pears they are from the very young age engaged in the process of consuming weather they like it or not. The process is complex and irreversible but for sure this is not the right place for […]

Matkopolko - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

Matkopolko

Info One day of the Polish-Mother-Artist- who is trying to fight with the ideal of The Polish Mother (Matka Polka).  She is dressed up in the black dress characteristic for the 19th century of a great national grief, when the myth of The Polish Mother was constituted. Women at that time were moaning after the dead […]

In th cage - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

In the cage

Info Guards of the Moscow underground are the people who in 12 hours shifts stay in one place, 0,25m2 cage to keep an eye on the moving stairs and watche the passengers walking. 99% of stair guards are pensioner women earning about 200 euro a month. Most of them has to commute from the outskirts […]

Dad at home - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

Dad at home

Family patterns change. Patriarchal model of family weakens, women are often self-sufficient, active and liberated. Man often stay at home with newborn children while women go back to work to pursue their professional careers. This was socially impossible and improper some years ago in Poland and nowadays they can get and use a kind of” maternal” leave, and it is more and more common and socially acceptable to see a man in the playground playing with his kids.

Laski - Documentary photographer Anna Bedyńska

Laski

Info „In each creative activity such as literature, film or painting the most important is the character. The character, the main hero, who despite his/her will (if has such at all) undergoes a manipulation of the artist, creator. In such a situation the character himself becomes only an element, a sole item used by the […]