Tutejszy – book
Kuba Dąbrowski
Kuba Dabrowski’s Tutejszy is 187 photographs arranged in the rhythm of the seasons and forming a narrative that balances between documentary and personal diary. It’s a journey through Poland as seen through the eyes of a man torn between a cosmopolitan lifestyle and a deeply rooted experience of locality. The artist turns his lens towards his homeland, recording an intimate yet universal tale of return.
Dabrowski photographs what escapes the everyday – bees drowning in orange juice, steamed-up window panes, abandoned stores fading from the sun, mallows masking the cavities of walls. From these details a portrait of the country emerges: at once familiar and foreign, familiar and constantly changing. The book’s title alludes to the term ”tutejsi” (“the locals”) – used in the 1921 census by the inhabitants of the borderlands of Podlasie and Polesie, who defined their identity through place and community, rather than the abstract idea of nation. Dabrowski takes up this theme, asking questions about the contemporary sense of belonging, memory and loss, and how to understand home today.
And why don’t we, the kindest of people, drop by Tomaszów for the day?
Kuba Dabrowski takes us to the archipelago of the home islands.
For the first thaw. To grandma: to the cemetery or to eat tomato soup.
For the old yard. To the first holy communion. Over the boundary.
At the inner-city suburbs. Into the groves and oak trees.
To the cinema for Wajda. To the border of Baum’s cube and trilicones.
Under the weeping willow or for some Chopin. For ice cream on the last day of summer.
Straight into autumn, which had been walking here since spring.
Photo book Tutejszy is an open window in a disused train station.
The last tickets left return.
– Julius Strachota
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EDITION
2025
PAGES
160
COVER
Soft
FORMAT
18 x 25
LANGUAGE
Polish / English
ISBN
978-83-975606-2-8
99,00zł
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