From 8 November, the exhibition “Polesie – Lost Images” will be open in the gallery of the Museum of Ceramics (13 Mickiewicza Street). Several dozen of the approximately four hundred surviving photographs by Kazimierz Miedziński capture the now-lost and nonexistent world of Kobryn and Pinsk, with their landscapes, architecture and scenes from the daily lives of the inhabitants of borderland Polesie. The recorded civilizational and cultural reality has an exotic quality for today’s viewer, but for some it may evoke memories of long-gone years of childhood and youth. Among the photographs on display, particular attention should be paid to those connected with state ceremonies and people recorded in history, including photographs of Romuald Traugutt’s manor house and a visit by Maria Rodziewiczówna to the Kobryn secondary school. The exhibition is complemented by folk costumes, books related to Polesie and documents concerning the Kobryn secondary school, where the photographer was a biology teacher. Kazimierz Miedziński, a Wielkopolska native and graduate of Poznań University, worked at the Kobryn secondary school until the outbreak of the war, and during the war headed the Home Army intelligence service in the Kobryn district. After the war, he taught at many schools in Lower Silesia, devoting his free time to his passion for tourism, for which he received the highest distinction of Honorary Member of PTTK. He died at the age of 81 in 1988. The exhibition was prepared by the Wrocław Historical Museum, which borrowed exhibits from many Wrocław museums and private individuals.