Artist name: Marcin T. Jozefiak

Image: Against the odds. How Blazej and the global pandemic teaches you to take life as it is.

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It was early June when we ""met"" while on two different continents connected by modern technology. Despite the pandemic and other circumstances, not able to photograph in person, we managed to proceed with the shoot and capture it on film. Blazej is a humble teenager from Poland who, in such a short time, experienced things that changed his life inevitably. After the tragedy he experienced as a 14-year-old, he was found in a critical condition, kept alive in a coma when he lost both legs under the train wheels. Now he has his own foundation, which aims to help those under their care and support the proper development of disabled children and youth by promoting an active, healthy lifestyle. He's passionate about sports and fights for a ""normal"" life. Training now to become a boxer and signing with Pinokio Models, a Warsaw-based modelling agency, he's changing how society looks at disabled people, perhaps in an environment that still sees him for what he doesn't have rather what (despite all) can achieve. We can't do much about the past, but we can choose what today and tomorrow will look like.