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Modern sculptures stand out against the restored Gothic architecture of Gdansk’s Main Town. See Slide Show » It was threatening rain when I walked unchecked into the Gdansk shipyards last Friday, my eyes focused on the beautiful jungle of industrial machinery up ahead. Elaborate steel cranes, painted green, loomed over the rusty carcasses of half-built ships, and inside the sagging brick warehouses, I imagined, were heavy and mysterious tools. My camera batteries were fully charged, and I was hoping to spend the day photographing these historic shipyards, birthplace of the Solidarity movement, which brought down Polish Communism in the 1980s, and now nearly bankrupt. The security guard running after me had other ideas. I was only a couple of hundred yards into the vast complex when he stopped me and explained, in vociferous... [read full story]
