139/365: Light up Lodz

139/365: Light up Lodz, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

May 19th

A small happening by a street art group. "Our city is full of dark places," they said. "Let's light one of them up." They are trying to draw attention to good locations in Lodz which are not being used to their full potential. The space where they asked people to bring their lamps is a pretty decent stretch where trees grow, and there could be benches and grass, except now all that's there is dirt, dog poop and drunks peeing on the walls. So instead of a little park, a place to breathe and rest, we have a dirty, disgusting area which everyone avoids.

With the lamps, just for one evening, it became a magical place.

21/365: Another building condemned

21/365: Another building condemned, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

January 21st

Though it was already abandoned a year ago, and I think long before then:

Further down, it's a ghost building, an empty shell:

321/365: Fog factory

321/365: Fog factory, originally uploaded by Magic Madzik.

November 17th

The chimneys of the EC-3 Power Plant in the background (one of four in Lodz), in the foreground, a factory due to be torn down.

Two other photos from that dreary day: