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lukemgraphy, 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago) to photography

Die-In For Life-In Gaza, 18th May 2024, Old Town in Warsaw, Poland

Organized by the collectives Wschód and Kefija, it was a die-in protest commemorating 76th anniversary of Nakba - the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during the war in Palestine in 1948. Particularly significant in the context of the on-going genocide in Gaza.

I'm not Rafał Milach and I'll cut my usual irrelevant yadda-yadda to say this: if you know enough of history, either of your own country or theirs, it's very hard not to feel sympathy to those folks. Listening to their stories was incredibly heart-wrenching.

More photos on my website if anyone's curious: https://lukemgraphy.eu/warsaw/die-in-for-life-in-gaza-18-05-2024/

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #documentary #reportage #protest #palestine #freePalestine #ceasefireNow

lukemgraphy, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to photography

Nowa Huta Meadows

The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.

It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.

My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?

#photography #cracow #poland #krakow #polska #nowahuta #nature #meadow #grass

muralhunters, 4 days ago to Krakow

Examples of street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland

Obiecana kolejna porcja zdjęć z wystawy reprodukcji dzieł Banksy'ego, która mieści się przy ul. Berka Joselewicza 21 w Krakowie. Fot. Marek Nogieć

#banksy #banksymuseum #banksyarchive #krakow #streetart #urbanart #muralart #wallart #mural #murals #urbanartwork #sztukauliczna #sztukaulicy #łowcymurali #muralhunters

Street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland
Street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland
Street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland
Street art at the Banksy Museum in Krakow, Poland

lukemgraphy, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to photography

Nowa Huta in Kraków (that industrial-ish one I guess)

The other face of Nowa Huta begins as soon as socrealism is abandoned and modernism gets to be all the rage (which is somewhere between late 1950s and 1970s I guess?). I'll be honest though: I know very little about architecture and I may have made factual errors in the previous sentence. All I know is that I'm attracted like a moth to lines, patterns and geometry.

Also, in a weird way that style evokes specific images in my head. I have some kind of synthwave-like nostalgic feelings about Poland as seen by my parents in 1970s and 1980s. All of which is of course fake because I'm not forgetting who ruled the country at that time.

#photography #cracow #poland #kraków #polska #nowahuta #architecture

lukemgraphy, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to photography

Selfie no. 5

(someday I'll figure out how to do selfies. That day didn't happen during my stay in Kraków)

#photography #selfie

lukemgraphy, 6 days ago to photography

Nowa Huta in Kraków.

Built from the ground-up as a separate city to settle workers employed in the newly built steelworks (it's even in the name, which literally means 'the new steelworks'). Designed as a poster city for Soviet propagandists. Huge, industrial, pompous. These days it's one of the most populous parts of Kraków, even though it completely didn't feel that way during my long weekend visit.

I barely scratched the surface, as severe planning mistakes were made on my end. Plus I don't like taking cliche postcard photos in harsh light. But I managed to see three different faces of this place and that counts I guess.

We start with the socrealistic face. The one that dates back to 1950s and truly feels different than whatever my peanut Warsaw brain assumed Kraków to be.

#photography #cracow #poland #kraków #polska #architecture #travel

An apartment block next to a fancy lantern with two sources of light on separate legs.
Very old street name boards on a building wall.
A plan of Nowa Huta on the wall of Hotel Centrum.

NYSloth, 7 days ago to Dog

It's Jimmy's birthday today, so here's a flashback to the day he came home. #Dog #DogsOfPixelfed #DogsOfMastodon #Mondog

lukemgraphy, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to photography

Since reportage and documentary are among my strongest interests in photography, this deserves some of my attention as well.

So, for various reasons I happened to be awake as early as 4am on Sunday and I saw this huge smoke above the block of flats in my area. At first I thought it was a rain cloud, but I looked deeper and something was clearly off.

I decided to take an early morning stroll to see what was going on and saw this.

I thought it was something close to my area, but my senses couldn't stop second-guessing me. I hadn't heard any explosion. I couldn't smell anything or feel the heat. It was still damn cold minutes before sunrise.

Funny enough, a day earlier I installed Fallout Shelter on my tablet and I had a lot of apocalyptic thoughts looking at that.

What happened is that a huge shopping center in Warsaw caught massive fire. So massive it could be seen from literally anywhere in the city. No reports on injuries, but thousands of people lost their businesses, many of them family-run.

There's also a lot of political background as well as quite a sizable room for conspiracy theories, but that's for another time maybe.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #documentary

lukemgraphy, 11 days ago to photography

Banksy Museum in Kraków

("Commercial Success Is a Mark of Failure for a Graffiti Artist")

(the existence of folks like me who are in awe with his art after seeing it on a ticketed museum exhibition could be such mark too I think)

#photography #cracow #poland #krakow #polska #banksy #museum #streetart #grafitti

A riot policeman with angel's wings and a face replaced with a yellow smiley face. The work is visible from behind mesh fence.
A rat holding a camera looking at the viewer. Next to its head, an exclamation mark can be seen.
A wall with a painting of a rat. The rat is holding a red paint. Above it, the text 'Because I'm worthless' can be seen.

lukemgraphy, 12 days ago to photography

Visit Kraków. It will blow you off your shoes.

#photography #cracow #poland #kraków #polska #streetphotography

Another shoe, this time a small one, hanging on the barrier separating pedestrians from tram rails.

lukemgraphy, 14 days ago to photography

Geese Louise

(back from Kraków with geez-how-many-gigabytes of photos and 4k30 short videos. And downloading them from my iPhone took hours, with Airdrop simply noping out at 700+ files)

#photography #streetphotography #streetphoto #kraków #cracow #poland #polska

Bella, 21 days ago to random

Let's have some #PuzzleFunWithBella 😊
Do you know what this is? Have fun!
(Solution in the third image description)

Finest grey ‘straw’ that glistens in the sunlight.
A piece of wood sticks out of the straw. The solution: These are close-ups of the trunk of a palm tree.

lukemgraphy, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to photography

Signs, again.

(sighs, again)

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #trafficsigns

jeder, 22 days ago to random

more rally cars

white-blue liveried rally car with golden rims
rally car with white livery and some drawn tire marks on there
rally car in red-white-blue wave-ish thing livery

lukemgraphy, 22 days ago to photography

I see you baby.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 25 days ago to photography

Stroll.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 26 days ago to photography

Waiting.

(I have too many griefs around this photo, but it exists and I can't change it any more, so...)

#photography #streetphotography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 28 days ago to photography

In desperate search for colors in this cold and cloudy weather.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #bloomscrolling #petals

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to photography

Slow down, give way to pedestrians.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphotography

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago to photography

Signs.

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska

lukemgraphy, 1 month ago to photography

Street performers have been a colorful part of Warsaw landscape since I remember. I sometimes photograph them, but I always have legal and ethical issues about publishing those photos.

This is one of super rare cases when a shy introvert like me had a chance to get it right.

And this fantastic gentleman was sitting in such a sweet spot of this new pedestrian bridge I just couldn’t resist. What I didn’t know at that time is that he’s a skilled guitarist, composer, and guitar instructor.

My friends - let me introduce you to the one and only John Neko.

And if you're still here (thank you btw!), go to his Instagram profile and read his pinned story of the Coldplay concert: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuiDxhaocdQ/?img_index=1

#photography #warsaw #poland #warszawa #polska #streetphoto #streetphotography