"In the retrospective of the Polish photographer and her Sociological Record project currently on view at the London institution, we gain a sense of Rydet's tenaciousness not only through Andrzej Różycki's documentary film, but through the sheer ambition of her series of Polish domestic life spanning 1979 until 1990. She was already 67 by the time she began her mission: to photograph the inside of 'every' Polish household."
"In a new show at The Photographers' Gallery dedicated to a documentary project numbering over 20,000 photographs, one of the most indelible images impressed on the visitor isn't a photograph at all. In a film which loops in the show's last room, we see a stooped, elderly woman in a white blazer, trudging through the countryside, camera bag looped over one shoulder pad. That's Zofia Rydet, sometime in the late 1980s, looking for houses to enter and people to photograph inside them."
A new show at The Photographers' Gallery presents Zofia Rydet's Sociological Record, a documentary project of over 20,000 photographs of Polish domestic interiors made between 1979 and 1990. Rydet began the project at age 67 and aimed to photograph the inside of 'every' Polish household. A looping documentary film shows Rydet in the late 1980s searching for houses and photographing inhabitants. Curators organize the display using Rydet's own categories—Women on Doorsteps, Windows, Door Signs—and a dedicated series on domestic images of Pope John Paul II. The images highlight overlooked households, intimate material details, and recurring religious iconography that map social identity across rural Poland.
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