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‘It’s perhaps not the easiest thing in the world to find beauty in Silesia or Katowice’: an artist turns heads with pictures of his home region

Trams float across a Silesian cityscape. Grzegorz Chudy

Magical and mystical and set against the backdrop of Silesia, the work of Grzegorz Chudy is like no other.

Scientists recreate faces from Upper Lusatia using 400-year-old skulls found in graves

The appearance of the former inhabitants of Upper Lusatia -  - a historical land located on what is today both sides of the Polish-German border - was reconstructed by anthropologists, archaeologists and visual artists in Wrocław.

‘They stopped being children and became witnesses of terror and violence!’ Archive of postwar drawings reveals children’s harrowing experiences of WWII

Created in 1946 as part of a post-war nationwide school project, the pencil and crayon images obtained by TFN show the full, terrible experience of war from the perspective of children.

Now Legia Warszawa joins the NFT craze after signing ‘pioneering deal’ with UK agency

Teaming up with UK-based sports and entertainment agency Capital Block, the club can now boast to be the first in Europe to sign with an NFT agency.

Extraordinary never-before-seen photos of war-torn Warsaw being rebuilt found during attic clearance

The 500-plus photos taken by Adolf Duszek in the 1950s show both the centre of Warsaw and the photographer’s home district of Bielany.

Forester’s incredible woodpecker pic awarded at world’s most prestigious nature photography competition

Łukasz Gwiździel from Debrzno in northern Poland, received the award in the 57th Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition in the category: ‘Behaviour: Birds’, one of five awarded in the category.

WWII hero donates his old Leica camera used to capture war-torn capital to Uprising museum

As a soldier of the National Military Organisation and the Home Army, Ryszard Witkowski whose nom de guerre was Orliński, used the Leica camera to record German railway transports, patriotic underground events, the activities of Home Army soldiers in Milanowek, the exodus of refugees from Warsaw and the destroyed city after the Uprising.

Instant snapshots on show in Gdańsk

In this episode of The Debrief, we take a look at a new exhibition which shows the history of instant photos in Poland – ‘Archives in a Flash’ at the National Museum in Gdańsk.

The dark side of Gdynia: stunning images reveal city’s night time persona

Haunting and ethereal in their stillness and beauty, Oskar Lewiński’s photographic portrayal of Gdynia at night has charmed the public.

Summer lovin’: deeply personal pics capture the essence of the Polish summer

Left yearning for her homeland during the lockdown, Joanna Wzorek’s ‘Summer Farewell’ project is a gently nostalgic tribute to the Poland of her youth.

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Chilling new book reveals meticulous planning behind Auschwitz death camp

The Polish-English book “Auschwitz Bauleitung. Designing a Death Camp” sets out in shocking detail how the full potential of German technology and industry took part in building the death apparatus that claimed the lives of 1.3 million victims.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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