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Photographer thrills internet with ethereal shots of Poland’s rugged wilds

Tolkienesque in their style, the gently haunting photographs have swept social media. erinthul__/Instagram

Juxtaposing haunting self-portraits against mystical Polish landscapes, Erinthul’s work has been praised for its Tolkienesque qualities.

Snapper wows internet with sultry shots of Warsaw by night

Urban photographer Daniel Remian said he began his nocturnal adventures after becoming captivated by the night-time transformation of the city’s streets and atmosphere.

Photographer turns Google street view into fascinating candid series documenting life in (mainly) rural Poland

By taking a virtual tour around Poland using Google Street View, photographer Monika Stpiczyńska discovered a fascinatingly candid presentation of everyday life in cities, towns, and villages. 

Wrocław woman records the ‘silent witnesses of untold stories’ with her haunting pics of abandoned sofas

Taken in a variety of locations, the images show sofas in varying states of disrepair, all united by their apparent lack of love.

TikTok star teaches millions of Gen Z followers about the Holocaust in series of short films from Auschwitz

Singer and dancer Montana Tucker was spurred into action after telling her followers  about her grandparents who survived the Holocaust and being shocked at the anti-Semitic reaction.

Easter catch up with TFN’s own Monica Zielinski

In this edition of The Debrief, John Beauchamp speaks to new(ish!) recruit Monica Zielinski about how she’s shaking up TFN’s social platforms!

Doll photographer reveals secrets of her trade in glossy new how-to book

An architect by profession, the 36-year-old who has over 100,000 followers on Instagram and a string of exhibitions to her name said the idea emerged when she was putting together her portfolio for print.

Influencer sells ‘digital love’ for 1 million zł

VIDEO: Marta Rentel, who is better known by her online persona Marti Renti, cashed in on close to 1 million PLN after a mystery buyer spent $250,000 for her emotions with a digital token called an NFT, or non-fungible token.

Jazzman livens up statues with his ‘sousaphone’ in 100-km per day charity ride for dogs

Award-winning composer and musician Piotr Wróbel has spent the last month cycling from Warsaw to Gdańsk and searching out ‘taken-for-granted’ statues to pose with his tuba-like instrument and raise money for dogs with cancer or other diseases, or which have been injured in traffic accidents or mistreated by their owners.

Initiative launched to help older business men and women survive pandemic through social media promotion

Since launching at the beginning of April, the campaign which collects and features the profiles of businesses whose older owners have often been running them for decades, has already amassed a following of 7,000 on Facebook and 34,000 on Instagram alone. 

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‘Tarantino-style western’ about Kościuszko Uprising wins coveted Golden Lion award for best film at Gdynia film festival

VIDEO: Dubbed a ‘Tarantino-esque Western in 18th century Poland’, the film’s compelling blend of grotesque violence and black humour is set against the tumultuous backdrop of Poland in 1794, when Tadeusz Kościuszko, the eponymous 'Kos', returns to Poland to with a freed slave to rally support among the peasantry for his insurrection against the Russians.

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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