Reportaż na Pomorzu. Rekonesans

Szczecin – a town of many identities, the capital of West Pomerania, an urban agglomeration situated about 100 km away from Berlin on one hand and on the other away from the Baltic Sea, with a prosperous (at one time) harbour, by its inhabitants called ‘a window to the world’. Szczecin is situated near the border between Poland and Germany and is culturally differentiated. It is a town of contradictions and compromises, seemingly open thanks to the access to the sea, on the other hand strongly distancing itself from its German past, which is to be seen in the names dating back to the times of the Polish People’s Republic, when this region used to be called ‘the recovered territories’. And so is the reportage in Pomerania. The reportage that is compatible with the town because of its borderland character, its vagueness and diversity.