ANDZELIKA (Poland, 2006)
Andzelika, a seventeen-year-old Polish girl, is facing a difficult choice: should she join her parents to live in The Netherlands, or remain in her familiar environment in Poland? Andzelika’s parents, like many other Poles, left for The Netherlands because of higher wages and a better job market. The photographer Wytske van Keulen met Andzelika and became fascinated with the situation in which the teenager finds herself. On the one side there is a beautiful but sometimes dissatisfied adolescent who dreams of a better life with her family in The Netherlands. On the other there is the carefree adolescent who wants to stay with her friends in Poland.