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Sylwia Kowalczyk

@sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social
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Artist working with photography. Fan of surrealism, ancient mythology and tearing up expensive prints. Born in Poland based in Scotland. A human slave to a dachshund. www.sylwiakowalczyk.com

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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Reading this right now. What a treat for an anxious Easter European mind! Plus my fav historian Barbara Tuchman gets a mention so what’s not to like.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
J'ai voté! Ne perdez pas votre droit de vote.
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I'm glad someone took the time to write the thread I wanted to write. It is tiresome to have this chat with other adults who simply don't have a clue. "Why don't you have an Alexa?" "Because Gav won't have them in the house." I have a culture problem right now, I call it the Other Parents problem
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Let’s hope this rise is not going to be reversed with a stupid choice next week 🤞🤞🤞
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yes to Josh O’Connor playing an art thief again but it is the soundtrack of this film by Rob Mazurek that is truly exquisite.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tluscioszek dla Ciebie @simoncrofts.bsky.social
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 25/04/2025
La France refuse en masse des demandes de visa venant de Russie, craignant des opérations d’ingérence
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La France refuse en masse des demandes de visa venant de Russie, craignant des opérations d’ingérence
Paris a refusé 1 200 visas et accréditations provenant de diplomates ou de « conférenciers » souhaitant assister à des colloques sur le sol français, afin que Moscou ne puisse pas reconstituer un réseau de renseignement décimé par les expulsions d’agents russes agissant sous couverture diplomatique.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just breathe. Just don’t think how little pollinators is flying around with all that juicy cherry tree blossom around Edinburgh.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Dear @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social You know that there many other composers in the world than only ruzzian ones (and you still only tend to play two anyway) and Poland had more talented composers than just Chopin. If you’d need any hints what’s good from that part of Europe, just ask.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Effing hate ‘cousin Benji’ types #iukyk always spoiling all the fun by going off piste which usually causes tears - somebody else’s not theirs. Avoid like a plague. #teamdavid #agreatpain
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Alison Park @parkali.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Astonishing fact on #bbcr4today earlier, discussing the Heathrow power failure. Heathrow requires 41MW; a new data centre nearby needs 150MW. Stark illustration of the underpinning energy consequences of data storage.
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Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity! Come work with me and Claire Haggett in partnership with @living-rent.bsky.social on a project looking at retrofitting, housing, and tenure in Edinburgh. Please share with anyone you think might be interested, and get in touch with us if you have any questions.
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Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I’ve been raving about Laura Carreira’s quietly devastating debut On Falling to anyone who’ll listen and now here’s my interview with Laura herself ‘You’re always on edge – it has consequences’: the extraordinary drama about working in an Amazon-style warehouse www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...
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‘You’re always on edge – it has consequences’: the extraordinary drama about working in an Amazon-style warehouse
In On Falling, first time director Laura Carreira exposes the hardships and humiliations of a woman struggling to earn a living in a ‘fulfilment centre’ in Glasgow
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
‘Frances Haugen (…) has suggested modifying the "Share" function on Facebook so that after any content has been shared twice, the third person in the chain must take the time to copy and paste the content into a new post.’
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Fat Thursday must be my favourite holiday of the Polish calendar. We’re very lucky because an excellent Polish bakery is just a street away from our studio in Leith and today Mario Patisserie provided us with the fluffy, delicate, rose-jam filled goods:
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Gilda Sahebi @gildasahebi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Hosted by Tim Guldimann, with Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev we discussed the question whether the West is broken and whether liberal democracy, the rule of law and human rights failed as global values. I learned a lot from Ivan Krastev. open.spotify.com/episode/1Zif...
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„The West and the Rest: The West is broken and is no longer the role model for the Rest. Have liberal de-mocracy, the rule of law and human rights failed as global values?” – mit Ivan Krastev und Gild...
Tim Guldimann - Debatte zu Dritt · Episode
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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
"The fact you don't have money is not just problematic because you're not getting the basics, it’s also excluding you from society" Laura Carreira (@lauracarreira.bsky.social) on ON FALLING, her debut feature about the tolls of the gig economy buff.ly/3ELUf5X [✍️: @jamiedunnesq.bsky.social]
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Laura Carreira introduces On Falling – The Skinny
On Falling takes us inside the empty life of a picker at an Amazon-like warehouse. Edinburgh-based writer-director Laura Carreira tells us why she wanted to explore the physical, financial and…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My thoughts on the Russian-American talks on Ukraine, without Ukraine. The simplest interpretation of the available facts is that the Americans are using Russian violence to try to exploit Ukraine. snyder.substack.com/p/peace-or-p...
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Peace or Partition?
Russians and Americans speak about Ukraine, without Ukrainians
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
After we let Russia occupy part of your country and steal your resources, we will occupy the other part and do the same. Quite the starting point for the Americans.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I cannot wait to see it!
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This image immediately makes me think about Olga Tokarczuk’s latest novel ‘Empusium’ 🤩 If you ever struggled through her Nobel prize winning ‘Books of Jacob’ this is a much easier but not least haunting read.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So nice to share the bday ☺️ not that it means anything 🫠
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Always a great chat with this one and I hope that results will be worth the film!
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’ve just spotted a great grant funding for artists, makers and designers from @hugobfoundation.bsky.social They don’t have many posts here so go directly to their website/IG to check the deadlines. Looks very promising - like what the design/making/arting community would need exactly:
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Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com · 27/01/2025
Respect to @theeuropeans.bsky.social for ditching Instagram. He’ll be an important figure here on #bluesky to follow, if you’re not already.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Having a photography studio right next to a picturesque pool of water makes leaving it late on a Sunday in January after a long day of prep for a Monday shoot, somehow more pleasureable. Hence my iPhone snap of the view from The Shore in Leith:
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Nice touch with reality actually when watching Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’ yesterday - ruzzians do bring death and destruction with them. And it is the women who’ll save the world.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Heavy day editing, I’m looking forward to being this horizontal position a la this wee dachshund:
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Not making any new year resolutions (not that I ever have!) Some things need to remain private especially in times like 2025.
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Gav @antihippy.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Never forget that Christmas is a German tradition.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Had a wholesome Christmas Eve and Day entertaining mu mum who is visiting from Poland and a smol dachshund that was visiting from friends. We’ve also heard from babushka so hoping for some more joy and the light at the end of a tunnel! I hope your Xmas is going smoothly and tastily too! Studio card:
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Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Such courage and integrity
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
My stepdaughter. Doing her best not to feel helpless. The circumstances are dire indeed and I’m extremely worried about babushka and other innocent people who are just targets for these monsters.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I have now prolonged my two library books and I’m planning to tackle my bedside tsundoku book pile before the end of the year. Yesterday I finished Ali Smith’s ‘Winter’ and today I’m back on Norman Davies’ essays ‘Beneath Another Sky’. Travelling without moving as Jay K would sing.
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Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I’ve been thinking, we need to bring back patrons. Like real ones who give writers and artists money to keep going why they create. Like in Renaissance Italy, but without the murder and persecution. Anyway, I’m available to be patronised, FYI
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Storytelling and the art of tenderness – Olga Tokarczuk's magnificent Nobel Prize acceptance speech
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Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Do you know of any successful art COUPLES? There is a constant moaning about artist-wives that had to put their own careers at a back burner to let their husbands one thrive. At least they are getting shown now. Where are the COUPLES working together? Are Christo and Jeanne Claude the only ones?
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Wojtek Kutyla @wojtekkutyla.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just a reminder that my open studio day is this Saturday. Pop in, say hello, look at my work, tell me a joke or just invade me with your pet :D Hoping to see you there! It's 2 Commercial Street, above Hemingway's, in Edinburgh. The door downstairs will be open. Pals, re-tw... re-bluesky! :D
A leaflet of the open studio day. Text in post.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Is portrait always good whenever it has a famous face in it? I beg to differ.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm delighted to be part of this group show from Studies in Photography with a print from my animal collage series 'Metamorphoses'. Do pop in THIS SATURDAY to 6 William Street in Edinburgh West End. The exhibition opens 6 - 22 Dec Tuesday - Sunday 12 noon - 6 pm
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Love that @rahmemanuel.bsky.social recommended The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes, one of the most touching books written on Shostakovich - the title comes from Osip Mandelshtam who like many talented, independent people was executed by the Soviets. A despicable regime that destroys the best.
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SOURCE Photographic Review @sourcephoto.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Impressions Gallery, Open Eye Gallery and Side Gallery, are looking for a Network Coordinator to establish a new pilot network across the North of England for photographers and organisations that are working with photography. www.impressions-gallery.com/opportunity/...
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Photo Connect: Network Coordinator - Impressions
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I tremendously enjoy creating photos, observing, arranging and re-arranging. I’m quite lucky that my art practice differs significantly from my commercial practice though these feed into each other in the most unexpected ways. Do I fail? Oh yes, often but I like the process of digging myself out.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Think what you’re leaving behind or what MIGHT have survive you - all the letters (exactly 7 of them) that we now have that were written with Rembrandt’s own hand deal with business aka money. He was also the very first painter in history signing his works with his first name only: Rembrandt.
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Sylwia Kowalczyk @sylwiakowalczyk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One of the best books I read in 2024. If not THE best. However, it does have a prequel (‘Empireland’ published in 2021) so I judge them equally. Also, got it from my local library in Leith so a double win. I will never look the same at the exotic holidays locations 😢
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