Rafał Milach

He is a full member of Magnum Photos and lectures in photography[1][2] at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the Silesian University in Katowice Milach's books include Strike (2021), I Am Warning You (2021), 7 Rooms (2011), In the Car with R (2012), Black Sea of Concrete (2013), The Winners (2014) and The First March of Gentlemen (2017).

[9] He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice in 2003 and the Institute of Creative Photography (ITF), Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.

[2][10] For his first book, 7 Rooms (2011), Milach accompanied and photographed seven young people for several years living in the Russian cities of Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk.

[3] Belarus is "a country caught between the ultra-traditional values of an older Soviet era and the viral influence of western popular culture.

In 2016, there were many demonstrations by Citizens of Poland, a civic movement engaged in pro-democracy and anti-fascist actions, opposed to the political changes brought about by the government led by the Law and Justice (PiS) party.

Milach's book of collages mixes illustrations of the children strike with characters that lived in Września during the communist era in the 1950s and 1960s taken by local amateur photographer Ryszard Szczepaniak.

Books by Milach (or by Sputnik Photos with contributions by him) flanked by irrelevant Pelicans; left to right: At the Border, U, Stand BY, 7 Rooms, Black Sea of Concrete, In the Car with R, IS (not), Fruit Garden