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Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Manager – “Przekrój” Magazine.

is a Polish visual artist, photographer and author of photobooks born in 1975 in Gdańsk. He lives and works in Warsaw. For more than 20 years, he has been focusing on nocturnes and the material qualities of light. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His inspirations include David Lynch films, road movies, pop culture, Anthropocene, as well as postapocalyptic scenarios and visions. Currently, he is exploring the creative uses of drone photography and VR.

Photographer Szymon Rogiński, one of the leading representatives of new Polish documentary photography, has prepared a photo-essay featuring places in Poland where you can find traces of old civilizations.

Sacred sites with the remnants of mysterious structures whose purpose is unknown attract both ordinary tourists and adepts of esotericism. Kurgans, stone circles, and the ruins of primeaval temples have become pilgrimage destinations. Przekrój recently visited such power spots—here are some visual souvenirs from these trips.

Łysa Góra #04, 2021 r.; photo: Szymon Rogiński

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Ewa Pawlik:

Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Manager – “Przekrój” Magazine.

Szymon Rogiński:

is a Polish visual artist, photographer and author of photobooks born in 1975 in Gdańsk. He lives and works in Warsaw. For more than 20 years, he has been focusing on nocturnes and the material qualities of light. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. His inspirations include David Lynch films, road movies, pop culture, Anthropocene, as well as postapocalyptic scenarios and visions. Currently, he is exploring the creative uses of drone photography and VR.

Translation: Julia Potocka-Ostoszewska

Publish date: 18.06.2021

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Michał Książek:

is a poet, reporter, ethnologist and ornithologist. He is also a staunch opponent of disco polo music in youth clubs and at school discos.

The year is 1976. In the village of Bronocice, in the district of Działoszyce in southern Poland, archaeologists from the Polish Academy of Sciences, aided by poacher Maniek Wróbel, have found the remains of a Neolithic vase near the Nidzica River. And what a find it is!

The vessel is decorated with an image of a cart driving through fields. Radiocarbon dating of the clay shows that the vase was made 5500 years ago, making this narrative design the oldest representation of a wheeled vehicle in the world. Simultaneously, it is proof of people’s knowledge of the traction wheel at that time. Older than the Great Pyramid of Giza, Socrates and Plato. Older than Jesus Christ and the Roman Empire. And older than the pictograms of carts from the Sumerian city of Uruk on the Euphrates.

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