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Water Postcards


The postcard project was intended to be about Kamionek's water networks, lakes, streams and wetlands. When looking for how I could show the water found in Kamionek, I encountered the difficult task of photographing water. Especially now in winter, the water appeared mainly in the form of vast puddles of melting snow, which turned out not to be very photogenic. So I was faced with the question of how to show water in an interesting and graphic way.

The only large area included in Kamionek where floodplains appeared turned out to be Skaryszewski Park, and it was its hydrography that found its way onto my postcards. On its northern side is Kamionkowskie Lake which is a fragment of the former Vistula riverbed and into which the Exhibition Canal flows. In the central part of the park, on either side of the main avenue, there are two large bodies of water connected by a canal: Pond na Kosku (Swan Pond, Western) with one island and Kaczy Pond (Canoe Pond, Eastern) with two islands, as well as several smaller ones (Medium Kaczy Pond and Small Kaczy Pond).    






      The water in the reservoirs is characterised by an alkaline reaction, high concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, high electrolytic conductivity values and an oxygen deficit at the bottom, indicating a poor ecological status. Aquatic vegetation is poor (two species are found in Kamionkowski Lake, four species each in Duck Pond and Kosek Pond).  As we can see from other wetlands that surround Warsaw such as Bagno Jacka or Bagno Całowanie, they are drying out more and more every year. It is possible that with the changing climate, the wetlands of the largest park in the right bank of Warsaw will also disappear.

The postcards I made show mostly frozen water. Solid water that turns into an object for a while only to disappear after some time and become part of a lake or a pond again. On the project, in addition to the photographs, I also decided to use typography with the coordinates of the places where the photograph was taken. Just as a building or object can be located by its address or the name of a street or a place, water appearing in different places is difficult to locate.