A series of photos of the ruins of the Stadion Dziesieciolecia (Tenth Anniversary Stadium.) I had planned on doing a more complete series but was warned off photographing by the black clad security goons that patrol the perimeter of this wasteland. The stadium is situated in the Praga district just across the Vistula River from Central Warsaw. Built in 1954 using rubble from the old city it was at the time, both an important symbol of revitalisation and a strikingly modern construction at odds with the prevalent aesthetic of Socialist Realism. Some time in the late 70s the stadium fell into disrepair and in 1989 with the fall of communism the surrounding area was transformed into an ad-hoc marketplace. The market, claimed to be the largest in Europe, attracts traders from all over Europe, Asia and Africa and itself became a symbol of the ‘wild-west’ capitalism associated with Warsaw in the early 1990s. Today the whole site is marked for redevelopment with construction about to begin on a new stadium to house the 2012 European Cup. Where the market will go on one seems to know, the traders were given until September 30th to vacate the premises but the general consensus seemed to be that the deadline would be extended.