Category: Poland
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Sacred pomp
Sacred pomp It reminds me of my catholic youth in Holland. Sunday mass in the 50s of last century. A nostalgic image of a distant past. Forever gone … but not in Poland! Photo of the week: Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
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Fallen angel
Fallen angel Fallen from his heavenly nest, wings too small to keep his baby-build up in the air. Photo of the week: Fallen angel, Church of Corpus Christi, Krakow, Poland 2007
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A wall in Kazimierz
A wall in Kazimierz Broken, mutilated, spread around in disarray,dug up from layers of dust and sand: memory fragments of the departed,fit together as a jigsaw puzzle. Memorial wall to the dead,for the eyes of the living. Photo of the week: 16th cent. Jewish R’emuh Cemetery wall, Kazimierz, Krakow, Poland 2007
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Oswiecim
Oswiecim Conceived at the end of the war and born in an again free Netherlands, the horrors of the Second World War have entered my consciousness through poignant images and stories. One morning in 2007, in the train from Krakow to Prague, we made a stop at Oswiecim. For us just a stopover; for 1.5…
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Auschwitz
Auschwitz (…) Er ruft spielt süßer den Tod der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland er ruft streicht dunkler die Geigen dann steigt ihr als Rauch in die Luft dann habt ihr ein Grab in den Wolken da liegt man nicht eng (…) (…) he yells play sweeter for death Death is a German-born master…
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Boating on the Wisla
Boating on the Wisla I was struck by the little boats. So tiny, they look like toys! The culprit is the huge building at the back. It creates a kind of inverse perspective and we are not used to that. As if the right proportions between the objects have gone lost. A confusing image. Photo…
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No. 13
I have friends in Delhi living on the 23rd floor of a big apartment building. Once, when taking the elevator up to their flat, I noticed that there was no button for no.13. The column of figures jumped from 12 to 14. There was no 13th floor! So actually my friends are living on 22nd…
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Leonardo between the Sunday painters
Krakow is the proud owner of a real oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine. So maybe it shouldn’t surprise us to find a copy or reproduction of it in this open air stall in Krakow. It’s hanging there in the middle – even in duplicate -, unpretentiously hidden between work of…
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Threatened with extinction
Nuns openly on the street, that truly isn’t a common sight anymore in Europe! With the exception maybe of places like Rome, or – as in the photo above – Krakow. Rome because of the Vatican and the Papal throne; Krakow as the place from where Archbishop Wojtyla was called in 1978 to become Pope.…
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