Carpe diem – a family visit to a photography studio | workshop with Liudmyla and Roman Krawczenko | Warstwy
About the event
We invite you to a journey through time! If you’d like to experience the charm of a vintage photography atelier, we invite you to visit the Photography Studio with your family. It is located at the foot of the stairs running through the Hartwig Alley ( Kowalska 3). Workshop instructor Liudmyla Kravchenko, with the support of Roman Kravchenko, will give a tour of the traditional photography studio and provide an overview of the history and techniques of developing analog photographs. It will also be an excellent opportunity to take a stylised family portrait.
Come and discover together how the photos that we now keep as family keepsakes were taken.
Details
When:
6 November 2026 (Friday), 17:00-18:00 or 18:00-19:00
7 November 2026 (Saturday), 11:00-12:30, 12:30-14:00 or 14:00-15:30
Where: Photography Studio, the Hartwig Alley, Kowalska 3
For: families
Registration: via the online form
Free of charge, places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis
Accessibility
- Polish Sign Language (PJM) interpretation is available if requested in advance. Translator: Jolanta Gromada.
- The event takes place on the raised ground floor, with no lift access.
- Let us know about your individual accessibility needs using the online form when registering.
- Read the basic accessibility information about the Workshops of Culture.
- Find out how to get there – watch the video.
About the ‘Warstwy – Dzieciństwo’ project
The project addresses the issue of the childhood of our ancestors, but also our own, presenting this topic both in terms of family memory and the memory of local communities, and emphasising the value of building home collections that document the past.
By taking part in the workshops, we will learn how to search for information about the lives of previous generations (including in state archives), how to preserve memorabilia and how to collect stories that we can still access. We will see how important and interesting it is to create our own family archives, how creatively the collected materials can be used, and what values can be discovered by immersing ourselves in folk games or songs. We will also have the opportunity to learn about old photographic techniques and to take a commemorative portrait.
Programme
- 4 October 2026 | Object – memory – how to describe keepsakes – a workshop with Aleksandra Karmelita
- 9 October 2026 | Carved wooden sticks – Lubartów pick-up sticks game – a workshop with Staszek and Rafał Sadownik
- 17 October 2026 | Lullabies – a workshop with Agata Harz
- 24 October 2026 | Patchwork of memories – a workshop with Jagoda Valkov
- 6 November 2026 | Carpe diem – a family visit to a photography studio – a workshop with Liudmyla and Roman Krawczenko
- 7 November 2026 | Carpe diem – a family visit to a photography studio – a workshop with Liudmyla and Roman Krawczenko
- 14 November 2026 | Traces of memory – a workshop with Michał Zawada
Co-financed by the Museum of Polish History as part of the Patriotism of Tomorrow programme.