MPW.74 / 2022 Pawel Janusz's Homecoming by Stanton Sharpe
Photographer
Stanton Sharpe Irvine, Calif.

Team Eppridge

Story Summary

Pawel Janusz is a Polish man who immigrated to America from Poland at the age of 25 for a dream of living like a cowboy in the Wild West. Now, in his mid-50s, Pawel has decided to leave America to return to Poland.

As Pawel prepares for his return to Poland, he must deal with the responsibilities that remain in his immediate present, specifically, his 12-year-old son Zane and his wife Carrie. He must also sell everything he owns that made him feel American — his hundreds of guns, his hand built home and all his cowboy paraphernalia — thus shedding his American identity for his Polish roots and past life.