Cut it short
Poland
2020
Tomasz Liboska and Michal Solarski come from a small town of southern Poland where they grew up and started their adult lives twenty years ago. It was the early 1990s, and the only way to appear “cool” was to declare war on your hairdresser, wear stripy clothes and immerse yourself in the Grunge revolution.
Only friendship and dreams mattered. But before they could even learn the rules of the game, it was over… They went on to build their lives far from the small town that they used to call “home”. They now return to this old familiar place and attempt to reconstruct past events. The title of the series, “Cut It Short”, refers to an old Slavonic tradition called postrzyzyny. The young men’s hair are cut as a pledge of obedience to mark their coming of age – a sort of a rite of passage.
With the support of the Institut Polonais in Paris
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About the artist
Tomasz Liboska has a degree in anthropology and photography. He has lived in Silesia, Poland for over ten years and is interested in people’s search for identity in society. His visual language relies on his own memories and experiences.
After doing a Master’s in politics in Poland, Michal Solarski went to London to study communications before obtaining a Master’s degree in documentary photography. Today, between advertising and personal projects, he works mostly in Great Britain and in former Soviet block countries.