Collection of Dreams

Every day there is a moment that we are in the street. There are always lots of people there who are hurrying somewhere.
We almost touch them, but who they are? We don’t know. We have become accustomed to this. I know neither them nor their thoughts but why not try ”meeting” them in order to learn something about them? So, I walk in the streets for hours. From time to time I talk to some people that I accidentally meet. After a small talk, I take out a camera and take a picture of them. But this is not the end. After a couple of days I look them up. I give them one of the pictures I take with me. On the other one, I ask them to write down their dreams and wishes.

The Collection of Dreams is a project based on the primary documenting function of photography. My role as a photographer is restricted to being a mediator.

All 45 pictures were taken in the city of Sopot (Poland), in 2001, during the celebration of the city’s hundreth anniversary of being granted the town status.

: Leszek I wish I were always so happy as now. Barbara

: I would like to go to United States. I wish I were the most famous scientist in the world.

: I want to be a healthy and a happy man. Just as I am now.

: It is a wish of the prophetess Cassandra… to be even more perfect in my profession.

: I would like to have a similar picture with my grandson.

: I dream of becoming a general.

: I would like to have already passed my maturity exam and to have fun for the rest of my life!

: I dream of a house for my Barbie doll.

: Recently, I’ve had no special wishes.

: I dream of having a separate room for myself only.

: I wish I had a larger appartment with facilities, e.g. a bathroom.

: My wish is that the roads of our resort could represent our city well, that they were of a similar standard as the European roads. Besides, more benches for older people should appear, as well as playing grounds for children.

: I wish my grandchildren grew up and became clever people. I also wish my family health.

: I dream of having a job and peacefully waiting for retirement.

: I would like to be a graduate from a good school.

: I would like to have an established aim to guide me in my life.

: I want to live in such a way that I couldn’t later admit I’ve wasted my time.

: I want to go to New York and meet new people.

: My wish is to live happily for a hundred years.

: I wish I had more time for doing what is not profitable but makes life more colourful.

: A flat in the Tri-city.

: To be always fit and healthy.

: I wish everybody felt love, peace and goodness.

: …. That they came true.

: To write a book that would become a best-seller in the whole world.

: I want to become a mother.

: As I’ve been a pensioner for 13 years, I dream of living long, of being healthy, and of avoiding financial problems.

: I want peace in the world.

: My wish is to … travel around the world.

: I will always want to thank God for the gift of vocation.

: I wish there was peace in the world and not so much aggression and hate.

: I dream of taking part in the musical competition → „Szansa na sukces” (A Chance for Success) on TV.

: I would like to go in the mountains in the time of a „real winter”. I would like to be a graduate from a very good school and a university.

: I wish everybody were happy and the world was free of hypocrysy. I would like to meet only sincere and valuable people.

: To do what I really like! To live in such a way that I’d never lose my dignity.

: I wish everybody who wanted to study was admitted to the university without examinations. My grand daughter is just taking her entry exam at the department of Polish filology and for the recent month we have all been in nerves and worrying „what if she fails”.

: Dreams that take on the shape of words lose their charm! Nevertheless, I pronounce them and I believe they will come true. I dream of a holiday trip to Pyrenees, of a cosy garret in my house in Sopot. And I also dream of sucess for my sons, in their artistic and sporting activities.

: I dream of a quiet peaceful life without stress, and also of having a happy, always smiling family.

: I wish I never lacked bread. I also want to go in the country.

: I have been living in Sopot for almost 30 years. I want this city to be clean, beautiful and entertaining. I would like to go to an exclusive, luxurius restaurant at least once in my life.

: I wish I won in Totolotek lottery.

: Free admission to the pier for native inhabitants of Sopot. To enable the women of Sopot to give birth to their children in a clinic in this city.

: I would like to live long, according to my ideals, together with my family and good friends, in this unique place.

: I wish I could manipulate time in order to stop it when I feel great and to make it pass quicker when I feel sad and badly.

: I wish the first yacht port appeared in Sopot.

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