Writing

Essays on place, culture and the spaces in between.

My favourite place in Kraków
Place Joel Beighton Place Joel Beighton

My favourite place in Kraków

I am lucky enough to have visited Kraków many times now. My wife is Polish and came to university here and whilst her family are not from the city, it’s still not a million miles away and is regularly a port of call for when we visit.

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Point & Shoot
Culture Joel Beighton Culture Joel Beighton

Point & Shoot

As a child, family holidays were punctuated with a questioning of why my mum was taking a long time trying to take a photograph of a Greek Orthodox priest walking down some stairs, or waiting for the right moment, with no people in frame, to photograph a sweeping white sandy beach. 

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