© The Photographers' Gallery
© The Photographers' Gallery
Zofia Rydet: Sociological Record
10 October 2025 to 22 February 2026
The Photographers' Gallery presents over 100 prints from Zofia Rydet's Sociological Record — a near-three-decade project photographing Polish households unannounced, creating one of the most important bodies of work in 20th-century documentary photography.
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From 1978, when she was 67, Zofia Rydet (1911-1997) set out to photograph the inside of every Polish household. She would approach a home unannounced, knock, and warmly introduce herself and ask the people living there if they would like to take part in her project. Rydet was always on the road, with a camera in her hand. For nearly three decades, she photographed people in their homes, still lives, building exteriors and landscapes....
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