Headlong. The beaver tumbled down the slope.

Headlong. The beaver tumbled down the slope.
26.09.2025 r. – 11.01.2026 r.
2 Adama Mickiewicza Street, Białystok

As we set out for the Flow outdoor photography event on the water, dedicated to the Podlasie nature photographer Włodzimierz Puchalski, we hoped to encounter some wildlife. Our first stop on the Narew River was opposite a steep bank riddled with sand martin nests. For the next two days, a great egret kept us company. On what must have been the fourth night, we slept beside a gathering of cranes on the far side of the river. One day, a dragonfly perched on my wrist for so long that I asked if it was sure it wanted to stray so far from home. At one point, we accidentally (and only briefly) separated a family of swans. We think we spotted two otters, one swimming across the river. On the final day of that first journey down the Narew, after a stormy night, a flock of starlings flew low over our heads. There weren’t many fish. We saw one herd of horses wading in the water and another grazing on a hillside. Along the Vistula, we mostly saw cormorants, gulls, and terns overhead, but also the rarer oystercatchers and plovers. We had to tread carefully on the sandbars and beaches, watching out for their nests built right in the sand. Once, a beaver went tumbling headlong down a slope. The exhibition is a diary of that adventure.