26/05/2026
From the “Dreams Come True” series…
In just a few hours, the doors will open.
Tomorrow, in the very heart of Auckland (154 Queen Street), the photographs of Bolesław Augustis will begin a new chapter of their journey — thousands of kilometres from Białystok, yet somehow still close to home. Even during the installation, the images already seem alive with memory, silence, light, and the presence of those who once stood before Augustis’s lens.
The exhibition “Bolesław Augustis: Two Homelands / Dwie ojczyzny”, presented as part of the Auckland Festival of Photography, will be on view from 27 May to 14 June. We warmly invite you to experience this extraordinary story of memory, identity, exile, and belonging.
Prepared by the Widok Cultural Education Association (Stowarzyszenie Edukacji Kulturalnej Widok) in partnership with the Sleńdziński Art Gallery (Galeria im. Sleńdzińskich w Białymstoku), the exhibition brings together the remarkable photographic legacy of Bolesław Augustis — a photographer whose life was shaped by two distant worlds and two homelands.
The project is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland (Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) from the Cultural Promotion Fund — a special-purpose state fund — under the programme “Promotion of Polish Culture Abroad”.
Tomek Kudaszewicz
The exhibition prints were produced by Sheridan Poland / The Black and White Box.
The exhibition is held under the Honorary Patronage of:
• His Excellency Patryk Błaszczak, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to New Zealand (Polish Embassy in Wellington)
• His Excellency Paul Ballantyne, Ambassador of New Zealand to the Republic of Poland
Special thanks to the Polish Association in NZ Inc, Auckland Polish Association - Polonia Auckland, and SPK - South Island Branch, New Zealand.
🙂 Ula, Grzegorz, Rafał i Tomek 🙂