Bałuty is a district of the Polish city of Łódź. A working-class residential area was built here in the 1920s. The German occupiers later established one of the largest Jewish ghettos during the Second World War here, the Litzmannstadt ghetto. After the war, the ambitious plans to convert it into a socialist city could not be fully implemented, leaving many of the old and dilapidated apartment blocks standing. Jörg Winde's photo series uses images of the urban landscape and interior shots of apartments to show the difficult situation in which people live there today and how they deal with it. The lecture as part of the special exhibition IN RÄUMEN provides an insight into the creation of the photographic series Bałuty and the neighborhood itself.
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