Piotr Malecki

Photographer and Filmmaker

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Poland: Women coming out about their abortion

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Location: Warsaw (Poland)

Nationality: Polish

Biography: Photojournalist and documentary filmmaker. Piotr finished documentary film-making at the Wajda Film School in Warsaw, studied cinematography at the Silesian University in Katowice and photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art in... MORE

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Poland: Women coming out about their abortion

piotr malecki

Dec 5, 2020

The two brave women decided to talk about incredibly intimate subject - the abortion. Despite the current political tensions (government plans to ban all abortion), or perhaps as an answer to it, they decided to come out and announce that they had an abortion due to the medical reasons.
Portraits shot on assignment for Der Spiegel online.

Full story, text by Maria Stoehr here:

Polen: Wenn Frauen ihre Schwangerschaften im Untergrund beenden mÃ¼ssen - DER SPIEGEL - Politik
Eine Schwangerschaft legal beenden? In Polen fast unmÃ¶glich. Um doch abzutreiben, mÃ¼ssen Frauen in den Untergrund gehen. Zwei von ihnen berichten von ihren AbbrÃ¼chen.

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