I photographed a process without life in the city (Warsaw) would be impossible. We draw water from beneath the Vistula and return it to the river. These places are seldom seen. It is the machinery of the river which we try to conceal and not to look at. Fat Kate, Żerań, Siekierki, storm water collectors. I think there is a certain industrial beauty to this architecture. It's a mysterious process, and yet one thanks to which the relationship between the inhabitants of Warsaw and the river becomes something absolutely fundamental, physical. My theme is thus the exchange that goes on between the river and the city, the water circulation cycle. I wanted to find places that serve this purpose. This is how I discovered the Czajka sewage treatment plant which is a beautiful structure (until 2012 raw sewage was dumped into the Vistula; now Czajka sewagae treatment plant decontaminates the sewage).
I got to know the inside of the Filters – a mysterious, closed area in the center of Warsaw. Working on the project I found it fascinating to meet people who are passionate about what they do at the Praga waterworks or the South treatment plant. I photographed water supply devices (because water is drawn from under the bottom of the Vistula) and sewage treatment machinery (because sewage is dumped in the river – until quite recently "raw", now increasingly decontaminated). Water from the Vistula is also used by the Siekierki and Żerań power plants (for cooling), which then return it to the river. We are dependent on the Vistula.