Outerfocus 56 - Czesław Siegieda

Published: April 16, 2020, 11 a.m.


Still on lockdown-ish and enjoying getting back to recording conversations. It’s surprising easy to pin people down when they have to stay home!

This time we talk with, Czesław Siegieda (Jan) about his excellent new book - Polska Britannica. Jan tells us about the history of Polish immigrants in the UK, and his double life of a British school boy and Polish Catholic living in a Resettlement Camp in Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire.

© Czesław Siegieda from Polska Britannica

Czesław Siegieda, born the son of Polish immigrants to England in Leicestershire in 1954, showed an interest in photography from an early age. From his teens he photographed the Polish community he grew up in, moving through fêtes and funerals with an ease only available to..........

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