Central Europe + travel

With such a solid dose of travelling the blog inevitably had to go into hiatus, so I will try to update it now with our latest adventures ( I know, it is quite a backlog!).

Let's start with some images from Prague, where we visited our familiar haunts - we had a chace to have a proper look at Tchech capital, where my friend Magda (ahoy!) lived there and she very kinldy put us up for the time of our visit.

Friendly smile of Krecik:

A fellow ReGeneration2 photographer - Ania Orlowska with a broken thumb at the Martin Parr show in Bratislava and Katka Prackova unwrapping a very Slovakian treat - in Poland known as wafelki and in Slovakia as napolitanky - thank you Katka! With their enormous (positive) energy capacities, both Katka and napolitanky kept us going through meetings with reviewers:

Nope, these are not potatoes but knedle (I am not able to recall their Slovakian name, sorry!  in Slovakian called slivkove gule as Katka recently filled me in)  - they actually

have a plum wrapped inside and are very VERY tasty.

^ Katka and Daniel looking through prints of Katka's exquisite work. I wish I had the money to get one, as I know how much collectors are forking out for them...

Simon at our favourite cafe - Mayer, which serves the most delicious cakes in Bratislava - Martin Parr is actually sitting at a table in next room but I am too shy to really stalk him. We have met him several times at various exhibition openings and then it turned out that we actually all stayed in the same hotel!

So we have met lots of lovely new people as well (^ a bunch of supertalended and superentertaining Russian photographers. Nikita Pirogov, who is the boy in a stripy jumper, won this year's Portfolio Review and will have a show next year in Bratislava. Another boy in company of two Olgas, Denis Vasilyev,  very kindly presented us with exqusite prints of his beautiful, intimate work. Wow, we have not expected such a moving gift! Thank you Denis!

Simon agreed to pull a Leonardo so that I could photograph him as a winner of the third prize of the Portfolio Review. I am so proud that his lovely, intelligent work is getting more and more recognition it deserves.