A gray-haired woman looks upward intently, her gaze fixed, head tilted back, and face mask lowered to amplify her shout—a picture of defiance. Taken by the Polish artist and photojournalist Agata Szymanska-Medina, it’s among the striking portraits in her recent series , or (2020–23), which investigates the erosion of democracy in Poland since the nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS) came to power in 2015. Her photograph shows one of the demonstrators who since 2016 gathered in front of the state television channel (TVP 1) headquarters in Warsaw every evening during the prime-time news to protest the station’s daily propaganda. The image is emblematic of Szymanska-Medina’s project—
