An English photographer, Chris Schwarz is best known in Krakow as the founder and first director of the Galicia Jewish Museum. In the early 1990s, he travelled to Poland in search of traces of Polish Jewish cultural heritage and captured them in images. These works, which retrace the contemporary and tragic history of Polish Jews, became the core of the permanent exhibition at the museum. The photos in this special exhibition illustrate the work he carried out a decade earlier, when he was covering the political upheavals.

“May ’81. An exhibition of photographs by Chris Schwarz” – Muzeum Żydowskie (galiciajewishmuseum.org)