{"id":684956,"date":"2025-11-13T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=684956"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:32:08","slug":"tender-portraits-that-celebrate-polands-black-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=684956","title":{"rendered":"Tender portraits that celebrate Poland\u2019s Black immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/69006\/1\/piotr-wlochyn-here-to-stay-poland-immigrants-black-culture-portraits-photographs\" data-article-id=\"69006\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-portrait-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" 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href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36247\/2\/piotr-wl-ochyn-here-to-stay\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429937.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429937\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36247\/3\/piotr-wl-ochyn-here-to-stay\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429932.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429932\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36247\/4\/piotr-wl-ochyn-here-to-stay\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429934.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429934\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36247\/5\/piotr-wl-ochyn-here-to-stay\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429923-7.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429923-7\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 17 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>As a young Polish photographer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/piotrwlochyn\/\">Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144<\/a> has long been confronted by the country\u2019s problematic relationship with immigration and race. In a conversation with Dazed, he recalls the fear-mongering anti-migration headlines that accompanied the election campaign of the now-president, Karol Nawrocki, and the strong disputes in neighbourhoods where many refugees from Ukraine and young people from Africa, South America, and Asia have moved to. \u201cAnti-immigrant perspectives in Poland are everywhere, but especially during the election, when several articles and opinions pop up about illegal immigrants and keeping Poland Polish,\u201d W\u0142ochy\u0144 shares, noting how many news stories were defending the Polish-German border using depictions of dark skin skinned people who were allegedly going through the border illegally.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his photography series, aptly titled <em>Here To Stay<\/em>, W\u0142ochy\u0144 challenges this depiction of immigrants, specifically young Black men, by positioning them as positively altering Poland\u2019s cultural and social life. \u201cI wanted to take photographs of immigrants from Africa or South America and focus on their experience because of how visible their otherness is in a country like Poland. If you\u2019re a white immigrant, unless you speak and reveal that you are not Polish, you cannot be vilified,\u201d W\u0142ochy\u0144 explains. \u201cI wanted to ask what it means to be a Black young man in Poland, when skin colour becomes a matter of political tension. I hope these photographs contrast with how politicians want people to see them, portraying instead how beautiful and tender these boys are.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"6c363592-4e76-490f-be23-b38a0099fa94\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1420\/9\/1429932.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.8\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429932-1.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429932-1\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>The images in the series were shot between the studio and the streets, a decision made by the photographer after he had shot the initial round of photographs in a studio, where he felt the setting was too sparse for the vision he wanted to achieve. &#8220;I decided to continue the project outside to make the images a little less sterile and add another dimension to the photographs by positioning them in and around the city,\u201d he shares. Inside the studio, the photographs are stripped back, allowing the focus to fall entirely on the subjects and their affective gaze towards the camera.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Out on the streets of Warsaw, the project assumes a different mood. The young men lean against spray-painted trucks, sit together on park benches, or walk casually through public spaces. These settings ground them firmly within the fabric of Poland\u2019s everyday life, placing them at the heart of the city. Here on the streets, the models interacted with each other, sharing gestures of familiarity, making visible the community they have fostered in a place away from home. One monochromatic photograph shows two young men sitting side by side on a park bench, their bodies almost touching but angled away from each other. In another, the image of one man facing the other while holding his shoulder is purposely out of focus, as if caught mid-motion. In both photographs, their proximity suggests familiarity, even tenderness: the closeness of friends, brothers and confidants sharing space in a city that may not always make room for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"6d180fd2-e56f-4b43-b66a-b38a0099a9dc\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1420\/9\/1429920.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.8\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144, Here to Stay\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1429920-1.jpg\" width=\"2400\" title=\"1429920-1\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"credit\">Photography Piotr W\u0142ochy\u0144<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Despite W\u0142ochy\u0144\u2019s background in fashion photography, he intentionally resisted overstyling the models; instead, he encouraged them to bring their favourite pieces of clothing, which the stylist then worked with to create outfits that reflected their own personal style. One of the models, Chika Dayo Libuku, shared how the freedom to pose, dress, and express himself as he wanted tied in perfectly with this project, \u201cI was able to show that I am here to stay in my purest form. I believe we hide our authentic selves away from public life because of the fear of judgment, which is why I try to showcase myself in the media whenever I can, so that I can be the representation other people need to break out of their shell.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>W\u0142ochy\u0144\u2019s vision is aligned with Libuku\u2019s perception of Poland&#8217;s changing multicultural reality. He explains, \u201cI think that Poland is changing, but no one wants to talk about it. Many young immigrants are now an integral part of the country\u2019s cultural life and have lives and realities that involve friendships, work, and relationships that root them in Poland. However, they are often treated as mute bodies whose presence in this country is temporary. This is why I wanted to name the project <em>Here To Stay<\/em>, to reaffirm that they are not fleeting, but a permanent part of Poland.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-series\">\n<h4 class=\"heading\">More on these topics<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-series\"><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lightbox\">Lightbox<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/immigration\">immigration<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/racism\">racism<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/europe\">Europe<\/a><a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/tag\/poland\">Poland<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"lava-lamp\">\n<div 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