"Baluty-Baluty" is a photography project running in the two months before the start of the Photo Festiwal Lodz.
photo: Aga (Baluty-team)
It’s organised and driven by the Dutch photographer Rob Houkes in cooperation with Agnieszka Pomorska-Struszczyk, Malgorzata Martynelis, Maciek Jacóbczyk, Monika Krzesiak and several Baluty-families and supported by social and cultural organisations in and around Baluty.
Baluty-Baluty is a documentary project which focuses on the life, relationships and love in families living in Baluty.
Baluty is an old (probably the oldest) district in Lodz, became Jewish quarter with the first and by that reason oldest synagogue in the city of Lodz (Altshtot synagogue) and turned into a notorious getto in WW II, Europe’s second largest ghetto exeeded only by that of Warsaw.
Baluty is party rebuild in the fifties and sixties. But some of the old buildings are still there. Because partly impoverished, Baluty is sometimes still seen as a ghetto which one could call – certainly in respect of the past – highly exaggareted.
Baluty-Baluty is presented at the Photofestival Lodz as an accompanying exhibition.
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