My name is Bartosz Frątczak and I have been living in Lithuania for several years. This collection presents the photographs I’ve been taking from 2014, the moment I came to Lithuania, till 2020. It is primarily a story about the life of Poles in Lithuania and Belarus, whom I was lucky to meet. This story is made of the moments saved in my memory and captured in my photos. I hope that this collection will become one of the planks composing the fence of the events I have witnessed – the fence behind which there is a house which is safe and open. And it is certainly not the end of the story – someday I will change the dates by adding more elements.

The initial selection of the photographs was made by my subconsciousness: I remembered about their existence when trying to fall asleep. I then described the images summoned by my mind in my notebook next to bed, so that I could find them on my computer disks the next morning. After some time, I asked my friends to help me choose several dozen photos, and I added descriptions that were the event participant’s narration, or even something more – the participation itself.

The opening of the exhibition was on 2020 at the gallery Fojė in Trakai.