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Man sowing seed on the green fields of Poland. (6 April 2010)

St. Mary's Trumpet Call, Kraków. (28 July 2013)

Gathering hay bales in bygone days (3 August 2011)

Experiencing high culture at the Stary Teatr in Kraków

Alseva solar energy projects in Poland

The old photographer (3 August 2011)

Rafting down the Dunajec river gorge. (6 August 2015)

A glimpse of Poland back in 2000.

Air raid siren in Lviv. (April 2023)

Kraków walking tour - EUROPEUM Centre for European Culture - Main Market Square - Floriańska Street. 13 July 2023.

Wandering Krakow's old town at night. 8 July 2023 (02:47)

A disappearing Poland. The man and his horse both passed from this world many years ago. Photo from 2 April 2005.

The CELTA course

Karolina gave me a beautiful book of poems a long time ago.

The destruction of Głogów / Glogau.

I'm thinking of returning to Poland to teach English (or do something else).

The Ukraine. A history. 1940.

A book within a book. Foreigners on Poland (1947)

Bus stop. Wrocław, 12 April 2005. Pope John Paul II had recently died on 2 April.

Holding Agnieszka. Pałac w Mosznej, 1995.

Agnieszka (1995)

Agnieszka (1995)

Pałac w Mosznej / Palace in Moszna ( German: Schloss Moschen ), 1995. Where are you now Agnieszka?

Galeria Dominikańska, Wrocław.

Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa nr 14 im. A. Mickiewicza. Opole, 1994. Girls, where are you now?

A snapshot of Poland around 1990-91, focusing on the destruction of Głogów or Glogau.

Poland's place in Europe - a beautiful, old book with many hand drawn, geographical maps.

Cele Wojenne Polski. Włochy, 1945.

He was at a critical point now, close to leaving this world. But he'd take her down into the abyss with him, for all her heartless lies.

Memoirs of Madame Piłsudski (1940) - Chapter I

Memoirs of Madame Piłsudski (1940) - Preface

What was she writing? Or drawing? 10 May 2005. Namysłów, Poland.

The old man retreats into the distance, in the twilight of his life. The young girl is just embarking. (A Polish village, 15 April 2005)

I figured out what is most important to me in photography. It's not just to capture beauty, but crucially something fleeting. A moment that will never exist again. The old wall will remain for centuries to come, but the young woman will no longer be there. York, February 2003.

Ukrainian woman selling Polish pierogi and sausage on Floriańska street in Kraków, Poland. 8 July 2023.

Cracow, the royal capital of ancient Poland. Leonard Lepszy, 1921.

Spring has sprung (Excerpt from the poem "Haydamaki") by Taras Shevchenko. (Read in Ukrainian)

Mapa - a poem by Wisława Szymborska

I stumbled upon some mysterious and interesting books from another age at the University of York.

Today I joined The University of York Library and Archives

The power of images

Images of bygone Dresden

Widescreen...

Porthole

November gloom

True Love by Wisława Szymborska

Kraków enters the twilight zone

The computational brain

The human body

Writing

Studying

Lost face. Głogów, circa 1999.

I stand with Stanisław Szukalski. Fuck the establishment. Just like him I'm full of contradictions, with a strong, anti-conformist, and eccentric personality.