The Photography of Paweł Wewiorski
The striking image that graces the cover of the March issue of the Krakow Post is the work of local photographer Paweł Wewiorski. We spoke to Paweł to find out more about the man behind the lens…
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The striking image that graces the cover of the March issue of the Krakow Post is the work of local photographer Paweł Wewiorski. We spoke to Paweł to find out more about the man behind the lens…
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My boyfriend is a great lover. He is masculine and assertive in bed, yet sensitive in everyday life and I really do love him. So, why isn’t it enough?
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The Tatra Mountains have a special place in the hearts of Poles. Despite making up just a tiny part of the country, in the extreme south, most Poles regard the snowy peaks as somehow quintessentially Polish. Every year, millions of Poles travel south to breathe the mountain air…
Read moreYou see them on the streets, you see them in your rear view mirror. Few drivers are happy to see the traffic cops, but for Tomasz Seweryn, Deputy Commander of Krakow’s Traffic Police (Policja Drogowa), they are there first and foremost…
Read moreHamsa, or to give it its full and somewhat unwieldy name, Hamsa Hummus and Happiness Israeli Restobar, is a new Middle-eastern restaurant in Kazimierz that fills a Rift Valley–sized gap in the Krakow dining scene…
Read moreSensible teachers pace their energy expenditure from holiday to holiday, but the week before a vacation, it can feel like we’re engines running on empty. The teaching jalopy tends to glide to a sputtering halt on the day school breaks up…
Read moreDrawers full of surprises, voices on an old phone, and new rooms that will transport visitors back in time – the famed Pharmacy Under the Eagle will reopen after a major refit in March, on the 70th anniversary of the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto…
Read moreDespite the frequent cases of corruption among traffic cops reported in local newspapers, Wojciech Smarzowski hasn’t tarred all Polish police with the same brush in his latest feature. Drogówka (Traffic Police, 2013) is a group portrait…
Read moreIn the two decades following the collapse of Poland’s Communist government, hundreds of millions of złoty worth of land was handed over to Catholic institutions. This was the work of the Komisja Majątkowa (Property Commission)…
Read moreSometime on the night of Friday February 15, person or persons unknown entered Jordan Park and defaced the commemorative bust of Polish wartime heroine Danuta Siedzikówna with daubs of paint. One of several dozen monuments to prominent Poles in the park…
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