Author Archives: Michal Dzierza

Photographer, journalist, editor. Lives and creates in London.

Brand new Flickr

By Michal Dzierza | Published 20/05/2013

*UPDATED* We wanted it, we got it. The new, and completely revamped Flickr is here. It kind of happened without a warning. I was browsing my photo stream – pondering the future of Tumblr – when Yahoo! served me yet another surprise. This page: The new site’s main features are available here, but the most [...]

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London 1927

By Michal Dzierza | Published 09/05/2013

Everybody has been sharing this video today – and once you watch it, you’ll know why. It shows London circa 1927 through the eyes of one Claude Friese-Greene. As the description that came with the video explains, this is “incredible colour footage of 1920s London shot by an early British pioneer of film named Claude Frisse-Greene, [...]

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Something for the weekend – Screengrab by Willie Witte

By Michal Dzierza | Published 03/05/2013

Timelapse videos are becoming omnipresent and a bit repetitive. This is not a time lapse video. Not quite sure what to call this genre. Vimeo user Willie Witte uploaded this video called “Screengrab”, illustrating an experimental technique which combines video footage with screengrabs and prints. Within a few days the video was picked up by [...]

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The Beachy Head lighthouse

By Michal Dzierza | Published 29/04/2013

I’ve taken a break from street photography. Not intentionally – it just happened. But it looks like replaced it temporarily (and again, not intentionally) with landscape photography. After my recent Dartmoor post, here comes the Beachy Head lighthouse. I’ve always wanted to do the East Dean to Eastbourne walk along the Seven Sisters path. I [...]

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Dartmoor in winter

By Michal Dzierza | Published 28/04/2013

Not quite. It was Easter. But it felt like Christmas. Driving through the beautiful Dartmoor was an unforgettable experience – the majestic views, the barren landscapes. And the near-frostbite on my fingers. I left the car just for a few minutes to take whatever pictures I could take, but the wind, combined with occasional hail, made it [...]

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Google Street View Hyperlapse

By Michal Dzierza | Published 12/04/2013

Mesmerising. Google Street View Hyperlapse from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo.

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Say no to vertical videos

By Michal Dzierza | Published 13/02/2013

Need I say more?

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More Berlin shots

By Michal Dzierza | Published 26/01/2013

As my previous post on Berlin street art proved quite popular, here are some more – mainly architectural – shots from the German capital. In no particular order: a tree outside the biggest Jewish Museum in Europe (an imposing buiding designed by Daniel Libeskind): The Bundestag Dome: A memorial outside the Bundestag building: The Holocaust [...]

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Berlin street art

By Michal Dzierza | Published 20/01/2013

Berlin. Not an easy place to love. Destroyed, torn apart and painstakingly stitched back together. You either warm up to it or you don’t. In which case perhaps revisit its history first. But in any case, one thing Berlin has been doing well for some time now is street art. During my recent stay there [...]

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Richard, the Piano Tuner

By Michal Dzierza | Published 19/01/2013

Every now and then I come across a video that hits me in the face by telling powerful story in a very simple way. Such videos stick with me for a long time after I’ve watched them. And this story of Richard, a piano tuner from London, is one of them. You can read Richard’s [...]

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