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Retired circus artist Henryka Sawicka (67). She performed as roller-skater acrobat. She has been working in circus for 25 years. For more than 40 years, circus center in Julinek used to employ up to 1500 stuff workers including artists, circus school teachers, technicians and others. Circus city was built in the middle of Kampinoski National Park 30 km away from Warsaw. Due to financial problems, the center was closed almost 10 years ago. Huge area emptied. Circus city is slowly dying. I invited few retired circus atists to take their portraits at the place where some of them had been working for over 30 years.
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Jozef Maksymiuk (59) posing for portrait in ghost disguise in his house. For most of his 25-year career he had been performing as a clown. He has been retired for 8 years.
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Jozef Maksymiuk (59) posing for portrait in his house. For most of his 25-year career, he had been performing as a clown. He has been retired for 8 years.
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Jozef Maksymiuk (59) posing for portrait in ballet dancer disguise in his house. For most of his 25-year career, he had been performing as a clown. He has been retired for 8 years.
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Michal Mozes (75) posing for portrait in his sleeping room. He was the only Polish male gum-man artist. He performed in Olympia Theater in Paris where his spine was so damaged that he had to quit the show forever. After that, he started to perform as his wife?s tiger assistant. He has been retired for 24 years.
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Stanislaw Kapisz (87) posing for portrait in his apartmement. He had been working as circus orchestra conductor, musician and composer for 34 years. He has been retired for 17 years.
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Jan Gajda (55) posing by the summerhouse. He’s been working in the circus as an acrobat and clown.
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Retired clown Fredek Malecki has been working in circus for 47 years. Since 3 years he has been on retire
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Zdzislaw Niemeczek (63) posing for portrait in illusionist dress at the corridor of the housing block he lives. For 46 years, he had been performing as an acrobat and illusionist artist. He has been retired for 8 years. He started to perform as a 10 years old boy
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Krzysztof Zielinski (71) posing for portrait in illusionist dress at his apartment. He had been performing as an acrobat and than illusionist for 43 years. He stopped his artistic career 4 years ago.
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Retired circus artist Mieczyslaw Grzebieniowski (77). He performed as rifleman. After finishing artistic career he worked as a teacher at circus school. He is already retired more than 20 years.
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