Polish Traditions

  • Dobrusia Kaminska

After living in London for 10 years, I realised that many of my traditional acts had been forgotten. From this reflection I aimed to create a book full of polish traditions, to explain, and possibly educate, people from other countries what they mean to me. It was important for me to remind other immigrants to reconnect with their backgrounds, as I was trying to do. The book is in both Polish and English. Polish is a mother tongue being pushed aside by my second language, English. Whilst living and working in England I found myself unable to fully embrace my Polish roots. The culture is completely different here, without the customs I was used to in Poland. The book is a reminder to you to restart your traditions and connect with your heritage whilst being present in a completely different country. All the images in the book are taken from my family albums, embedded with nostalgia and highly personal to me. It’s about my journey reconnecting to my traditions and the aim is to inspire that into other people like me missing their country. The overall book design is very bold and simple; the typographic voice a reflection on Polish design, Polish letters…there are not many types that fit well with the Polish language because of the volume of abbreviations and letters in its alphabet.