After Poland’s period of post-war turmoil, reconstruction, cult of personality and mass parades came to an end, and the late 1950s political thaw-driven wave of enthusiasm and hope for something died out, came the time for stabilization – a “small stabilization”....

Romuald Broniarek (1931-2013) – a photographer and photojournalist who worked for the weekly Przyjaźń, a subsidiary of the Polish-Soviet Friendship Society, throughout his professional life and until the fall of communism.