I'm Agata Bryskier – a photographer, a mother, a woman who's come a long way. Born and raised in Poland, I now live in Canada with my two teenage children, building a quiet, intentional life from the ground up. My name is a reclaiming. Bryskier was my grandfather’s real surname – a Jewish man who survived the Warsaw Ghetto by hiding his identity. After the war, he never returned to that name – perhaps out of fear, shame, trauma, or the simple need to survive. Many years later, I chose to bring it back – softly, defiantly – as a tribute to truth and belonging. After fifteen years of marriage, I started over – as a single mother, an immigrant, a woman rebuilding life on her own terms.