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Honorable Mention BIFA 2020 Editorial / Photo Essay

In Between

  • Photographer
    Katarzyna Heczko Bodora
  • Agency / Studio
    Blok.photo
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention in Editorial / Photo Essay

Depending on sources, in 2019 there were from 1,2 mln to 2 mln Ukrainian Migrants in Poland. They make up 85% of all migratory flows. „In between” touches the phenomenon from the perspective of migrants’ families staying at home in Ukraina: Grandmother, Mother, Daughter. Different stories, as the reasons of leaving the country. Looking for stabilization and better place to live, acquiring additional founds to bolster tight family budget, looking for freedom as Poland opens the door to the European Union.

Katarzyna Heczko Bodora (born in 1974 in Namyslow, Poland). A documentary photographer. Graduate of Chemistry at the Silesian University of Technology. She’s finished Photography Academy in Krakow (2018) and VII Masterclass in Warsaw with Sara Terry as a Mentor (2019). Her work touches sociological issues. She’s the winner of 20th anniversary of National Geographic contest. Her work has been exhibited by Pix.house, Gallery B&B and published in National Geographic. She’s cofounder and member of BLOK.photo collective. She lives and works in Silesia, Poland.