9 Gates of No Return by Agata Grzybowska. First edition, first impression (2017). Large format hardback (two books bound inside a hard cloth cover). Please note the books is new and unread, however, there are slight bumps to bottom corners of both front and back board, caused during transportation.
About 9 Gates of No Return
In9 GATES OF NO RETURNAgata Grzybowska presents 9 persons who for various reasons and life choices have decided to give up their lives in the city and settle in the woods of the Bieszczady Mountains, south-eastern Poland. Bieszczady, which for many are a symbol of freedom and direct, tangible contact with nature, became a trap for them, which they cannot get out from. They live far away from other people, often without electricity and running water, in the huts they built themselves.
Why did they make such decisions? What was driving them? What did they run away from? What did they want to achieve in this way? What the loneliness and melancholy is for them? These are just some of the questions that Grzybowska is trying to answer with9 GATESOF NO RETURN.
Comprised of two parts, Grzybowskas book contains extremely powerful portraits and landscapes printed inquadtones, accompanied by colourful polaroids and memorable handwritten interviews. All photographs were taken during several Grzybowskas winter stays in the Bieszczady Mountains.
