Michal Dzierza

@michald
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Visual stories. From journalism and linguistics to filmmaking and visual arts. Formerly the BBC, News UK and many others. #photographer #filmmaker #photography #documentary #filmmaking #journalism #london
My sitehttps://dzierza.com
Instagramhttps://instagram.com/michald
Threadshttps://www.threads.net/@michald
If you like #photography , I've collected some of my 2023 favourites here (a highly subjective list): https://www.dzierza.com/post/best-of-2023-photography
Best of 2023 photography

Final post of the year and a highly subjective selection of my images from this year, aka best of 2023 photography favourites. The 'subjective' bit is important, as these are not necessarily my 'best' or 'most popular' or something similar pictures. These are some images I captured and with them, I captured a moment that meant something to me, a view I want to remember or a scene that had a smell only a photograph can help me recall. This year: - was about strong colours and empty spaces - didn'

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Ferry crossing.
In the sea of overly long podcasts, bro casts, I-don’t-know-how-to-ask-questions-but-I-have-a-podcast podcasts, this is refreshing whereareyougoing.co.uk
A new trend(?) on Instagram: someone likes my photos then follows me. A couple of days later a message: “you have amazing photos “. Any reply triggers a follow up message/offer to buy my pictures as NFTs and pay me some crypto cash. Some of these accounts then disappear. The weird thing is, some of them have huge following and have been around for a while.
Autumnal mini harvest
At an event, discussing with colleagues whether the state of the carpet influences the participants’ mood/perception of the event.
I find it funny when people who normally say hi and chat while walking their dogs completely blank me when they bump into me at the station. Both them and I temporarily without our distinctive furry features. Perfect strangers again.
“Record signups” on Bluesky. “Thousands migrating” to Threads.
Mastodon “on fire” after X announces subscriptions. And yet, I can’t build affinity with any of them, can’t make just one of them THE default app for me. Maybe the digital town square as we knew it is dead?
If you eat food (do you?), you should read this. Then revisit your nutrition choices.
More autumnal light goodness.... #photography #fujifilm #FujiX100V #london