Rafał Milach

Eyes on Talents member, Rafał Milach, is a Polish visual artist and photographer. His work focuses on topics related to the transformation in the former Eastern Bloc. His award-winning photo books include The Winners, 7 Rooms, and The First March of Gentlemen. Rafał Milach took pictures on his country’s eastern border when the war in Ukraine was less than a week old. During that week, nearly a million people fled Ukraine, half a million of them escaping to Poland. "The first quality that stands out in these portraits is the exhaustion in people’s faces. The muted colors in the background—the pewter sky, the drab pastel walls, the dead white of the bus—seem to sympathize." writes The New Yorker.