Photographer/Writer Andrew Faulkner took a job at the Warsaw Business Journal and went to Poland, expecting to find frozen fields, crumbling gray factories, and sausages. Instead, he found American fast-food restaurants and shopping malls sprouting up like mushrooms, shiny new factories funded by foreign capital, and an ex-patriot population living like kings in Warsaw.

Outside the frenetic capitol he also discovered a land of medieval monasteries and a truly open hearted-people. Faulkner lifts the gray concrete veil of the cold war and discovers a vibrant and colorful country.