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The above streetphoto was made in the square of the Old Town district of
Warsaw, Poland in 1990. It was Freedom Summer in
Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall had just collapsed the previous December and European
Reunification Day was still two months away, but these five locals came out on a
sunny August morning to sit amidst the street painters and the merchants and the
tourists -- and to just play their parts in the buzz of the flow of a revolution
of spirit.
After 50 devastating years of War, Soviet domination, and Cold War limbo -- they
wore their delight at their newfound optimism on their sleeves ...
... but, although their cloths were bold and festive and free, their five faces
could not conceal the strain of a people suddenly in transition whose surprise
job it was to somehow make this freedom thing work.
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