Art & Culture

Polish wildlife snapper’s incredible photo of a lion staring at the lens wins prestigious international nature photography competition

Taken at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Tomasz Szpila’s hypnotic photo was awarded ‘Category Winner’ in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022 competition’s Wild Portraits section. Tomasz Szpila/Nature TTL

Taken at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, Tomasz Szpila’s hypnotic photo was awarded ‘Category Winner’ in the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year 2022 competition’s Wild Portraits section. Two other Polish photographers were also award runner-up in the Landscapes and Under 16s categories.

Witkacy’s world

A new exhibition on Witkacy at the National Museum in Warsaw provides a new perspective on the artist and his work.

Poland’s most bankable film director turns camera on himself for powerful ‘warts-’n’-all’ biopic

VIDEO: Patryk Vega whose hits include Pitbull, Women of Mafia and Secret Wars says that he wants to show how this fame, glitz and big money came at a huge price, awakened dormant demons and exposed him to the temptations and pitfalls of show business.

Now that’s food for thought! Survey reveals pork and cabbage still Poles’ number one dish

Carried out by Kantar for weekly current affairs magazine Polityka, the survey looked into the eating preferences of Poles by age, income, education level and region.

Polish becomes official language of small Brazilian town

VIDEO: Founded in 1906 by Polish immigrants, the commune of Áurea in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has a population of around 3,600 people, of which 90 percent have Polish heritage.

Surviving Warsaw Uprising insurgents honoured in series of moving posters by contemporary artist Wojciech Korkuć

United by the slogan ‘Honour and Glory to the Heroes’ the series is divided into two types of posters - one depicting colourised photos showing scenes from 78 years ago, while the second group are portraits of living insurgents holding their own wartime photographs.

Fascinating now-and-then photomontages show war-torn Warsaw of 1944 Uprising juxtaposed with today’s vibrant capital

Using a mobile app to calculate the exact time a picture was originally shot, the complex process involved Marcin Dziedzic having to account for weather, light and angles before being able to successfully overlap the parallel worlds of then and now.

Fun and games mark Lublin ‘Carnaval’

In parting with the traditional and embracing contemporary circus, the Carnaval aims to get a party going on the streets of Lublin, which becomes a hub for performers, buskers and so-called ‘ludic artists’ of all kinds…

Warsaw office first in the world to receive prestigious Platinum award for disabled access

A Warsaw office building is celebrating after becoming the first in the world to be awarded Platinum status by the Irish-based accessibility assessment organisation Mobility Mojo.

Kraków ‘flames to please’ with its new trail of miniature dragons

Designed by Andrzej Mleczko and Edward Lutczyn, pictures of the prototypes reveal one dragon wielding a camera, another standing behind a video camera, and a ferocious one emerging from the water with a fish in its claws.

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