Zorka Project COMMON PEOPLE

„Common People" - the photo project organized in cooperation with "Duzy Format" - weekly supplement to Gazeta Wyborcza daily magazine. Looking for the characters of their photos, Redzisz and Berezecka published the press announcement to recruitment common Poles to photo session. They wanted to illustrate how the common Poles look and life like. What are they dreaming about? What terrifies them? All photographs have been taken at their homes. They were also interviewed by both artists.

Photo by Tomasz Padło

Monika Redzisz (1974) and Monika Berezecka (1974) met while studying at the department of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 2000 they set up a photography group under the name of "Zorka Project". Since then, they have been working as a team, taking photographs and writing press articles together. In their cycles of portraits, so far, they have shown: Warsaw female tram drivers, nuns, bodybuilders, refugees, drag queens and homeless mothers with children. Their works have been published in daily Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita, weekly magazines such as Polityka, Przekrój or in monthly magazines: Playboy, City Magazine, Aktivist.