'Lost' is a long term project about missing persons in Poland.Every year the police file 15,000 missing person reports. Every day these absent faces look out from posters designed to attract our attention, yet with every passing day we notice them less. Only those who have lost someone in these circumstances can begin to imagine the pain these families are going through. Their feelings teeter between loss and hope. Often the rooms of the missing lost ones are left untouched, for several months, years, and even decades.
Psychology student, Robert, did not attend his morning lectures, just as he did not catch the bus to the Jagielonski University in Krakow. He did get up early and take the rubbish out. And since then nobody has seen him or knows what has happened to him – that was 20th January 1995 when he was 21.'Lost' is a long term project about missing persons in Poland. Since early may 2012 I have been traveling around the country to visit the families of missing persons to photograph their rooms and collect their portraits, in order to then, interpret them photographically in my own individual and subjective way. This project brings combines images of 16 rooms, 16 portraits and 16 letters to highlight the plight of those who are missed and those who miss them.Every year the police file 15,000 missing person reports. Every day these absent faces look out from posters designed to attract our attention, yet with every passing day we notice them less. We become as immune to these posters, as we do to their faces. Only those who have lost someone in these circumstances can begin to imagine the pain these families are going through. Their feelings teeter between loss and hope. Often the rooms of the missing lost ones are left untouched, for several months, years, and even decades.This project has several goals: 1) An Intervention to reinvigorate the efforts to find the missing; 2) Prevention to build awareness of the huge pain caused when someone goes missing; 3) Awareness in order to bring this issue to
people’s attention, not only in Poland, but all over the world; 4) and, my personal exploration of the links between depression and disappearance.