Two Cigarette Burns

  • Sam Chignell

Two Cigarette Burns is an exploration into the life of my Great Grandpa, Peter Jack Lee, formerly Piotr Marian Radzio. His starting point being, when he arrived in the UK after fleeing Poland in 1939, to his death in 1993, my work is a tool used to explore his life. From this, I hope to continue on a journey of discovery while incorporating an element of time and distance due to the circumstances of my Great Grandpa no longer being alive to talk with. This means that the project is created through stories and archives held by my family, going on an exploration through these archives to try to understand who my Great Grandpa was as well as listening to stories told about him from my family. From this I hope to begin to really understand who he was as a person without the chance to meet him. https://www.samchignellphoto.com/final-year-practice