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A material exploration of fading memories and finding belonging, Ewelina_Bialoszewska has designed a family photo album that allows her to put down her Polish roots wherever she goes. Titled Growing Album, Ewelina's project uses photographs from family visits to reimagine the traditional family album. The publication allows her to quite literally plant her Polish roots on whatever soil she finds herself on. Whilst selecting images of people, places and plants that hold deep personal meaning to translate into a photo book, Ewelina sourced something else to go alongside them: seeds that resonated with each memory. In order to make the paper for the publications seed-sewn pages by hand, the artist used “old maps of my hometown, Lubań, and carefully archived newspaper clippings collected by my grandmother”, to form new sheets. The final book is a photographic vessel that looks alive and tender, the book will grow differently depending on what foreign ground it greets – a quiet reminde...

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