Kasimir Zgorecki, Photographing Lesser Poland

This book was produced at the time of the exhibition dedicated to Kasimir Zgorecki at Louvre-Lens Museum It focuses on a unique photographer, contemporary with the great wave of Polish immigration in the 1920s and 1930. Kasimir Zgorecki emigrated with his family in 1922 to work in the mining basin of Pas-de-Calais. He was then 18 years old. In 1924 he took over from the his brother-in-law's photographic studio in Rouvroy, produced his first self-portraits to learn poses and lighting then start an activity flourishing business with his compatriots, residents of the neighborhoods often called Little Poland around Lens, Liévin, Hénin, Carvin... It will be both the witness of the traditions maintained in France by the community Polish but also their messenger in the sense that his photographs will give Expat news to all families remaining in Poland.