“We are building a certain queer narrative in Poland,” says Polish photographer Agata Kalinowska, who spent the last decade photographing her community in moments of vulnerability and joy.
this week in London – was over a decade in the making. As a queer woman who, by her own assessment, doesn’t fit patriarchal standards of feminine beauty, Kalinowska hid in spaces of safety, places where the cruelty of the male gaze couldn’t harm her. For a decade she worked in bars in Poland, partying and documenting the reality around her through her photography. Kalinowska explains that taking pictures was a way of participating, “I wanted to dance in a different way.
It isn’t easy to live outside of the norms of femininity and heterosexuality in Poland. The country has become notorious for having ‘LGBT-free zones’ and in 2020, LGBTQ+ activists were detained for protesting the conservative government, which had been recently re-elected after running on an anti-LGBTQ+ platform. However, according to Kalinowska, the arrest of protesters sparked an awakening across the queer community in Poland and a flourishing of art made by queer creatives.
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