A breakthrough in Zgierska’s work was the car accident she survived in 2013. The photographer describes: “I was close to death, and reality – one that I had been adapting to with difficulty – slipped through my fingers.” She adds: “The accident brought my work to a halt. My mind was filling up with fragmentary memories, and sharp, detached details. My own physicality and pain became a source of images that felt more and more substantial and bodily as time passed.” Grey-toned, almost silent in their expression, the photographs speak of the fears we all have in our lives.