The photography exhibition ‘Communities’ offers a photographic view of the festival’s main theme with its reflection on the various forms of communities both as a factor in creating identity and belonging, but also in potentially creating division and exclusion. It raises questions such as: what remains common in a context where individualism seems to prevail over the collective spirit? How do new forms of communities emerge, and do they provide a similar sense of belonging? What are the dangers of locking oneself into one’s own community and, of the opposite, of being assigned to a particular community (or minority)?
These are some of the questions that have guided the choice of the five presented projects in the exhibition curated by Marta Szymanska.