"Letting go of one’s remaining parent and of one’s parental home is a formidable task. Suddenly feelings of abandonment may emerge, and childhood memories become conscious again. When combined with making arrangements for the funeral and gazing upon what remains in that home of moments now past, and from the perspective of another country which has become a second home, we are prepared to sense multiple layers of memory and recollections, as well as cultural and personal perspectives in glancing back on so much detail of a shared life."- Gerhard Clausing, The PhotoBook Journal
Read More
"In his new, intimate, limited-edition book of photography,
67/11, Jurek Wajdowicz, internationally acclaimed designer and fine art photographer, explores the universal experience of death and the meaning of home. Drawn from personal experience, this emotionally expressive work is at once starkly simple and richly layered. Wajdowicz's response to a deep sense of personal loss and the painful void it has left is to create images of beauty, sadness and poetry."– CLAIRE LEWIS, Editor. North American Media Group.
"
67/11 is a new monograph by Jurek Wajdowicz which focuses on a series of photographs he made in his mother’s home in Lodz, Poland, when he returned there for the last time following her death to make the funeral arrangements and say goodbye.
67/11 is an artistic response to a deep sense of personal loss and the painful void it has left behind. It is an emotionally charged work that is at once starkly simple and richly layered, and an expression of sadness and poetry.
In his deeply personal book of photographs and writing,
67/11, Wajdowicz explores the universal experience of the loss of a parent and the meaning of home following the death of his beloved mother. His beautiful, dreamlike photographs were taken over several days and nights in his mother’s home in Lodz, Poland as he arranged and waited for her funeral..."– CARY BENBOW, Writer. F-Stop Magazine.
Click here to watch book highlights video
