At the end of World War II, because of the reforms passed in 1944 by the Polish Committee of National Liberation, landed gentry was eliminated as a social group and their estates confiscated.

In his album “Topography of silence” Waldemar Śliwczyński shows what remained. Both abandoned and falling apart as well as an still in used and refurbished buildings which are the only remnant of an important Polish national heritage.

The album is a solid black plate with embossed scattered typographic structure. Duotone photographs are printed on an excellent Phoenix Motion Xantur paper.