photographs

Fascinating photos documenting life under communism revealed after museum staff use lockdown to sift through 15,000 negatives

Often mundane when taken at face value, no topic was deemed too prosaic for Władysław Orłowski’s lens as this picture of a jolly woman riding through town on a horse-drawn carriage shows. Muzeum Dawnego Kupiectwa/Władysław Orłowski

The photos by prolific photojournalist Władysław Orłowski covering a wide breadth of everyday topics, depicting everything from children playing to fashionable locals quenching their thirst at summertime refreshment stalls, offer a captivating snapshot of everyday life during the PRL period.

Spell-binding photos tell fascinating story of 19th century Polish emigration to South America - and of their modern-day descendants

In their ongoing project “Waiting for the Snow”, cousins Katarzyna and Marianne Wasowska  offer an intimate portrait of Poles who emigrated to Brazil and Argentina, where there is also a sizeable diaspora.

Poland’s landscape erupts into colour with spectacular splashes of yellow

Forget living in a Yellow Submarine, how about some Yellow fields supreme!

The Warsaw we never knew: Stunning photos of pre-war Warsaw moved online

Fotoplastikon Warszawski is home to over 7,000 photographs from Poland, one third of them presenting pictures of old Warsaw.

Amateur snapper captures life during lockdown – and now his pics are in Vogue

Lawyer by day, snapper by night, Maciej Przemyk’s photos of his neighbourhood living through the coronavirus pandemic have become such a hit they have now appeared in the online edition of Polish "Vogue".

Eurasian hoopoe spotted in Polish mountains for first time in 50 years

Local highland dwellers in the Tatras have now taken the sighting as a good sign as the plural for the birds in Polish, “dudki”, sounds similar to the word for money in their dialect, “dutki”.

Polska Britannica: Intimate and beautiful photos that lay hidden for over 40 years have premiered inside a powerful documentary album

Shot principally between 1974 and 1981 and showing the lives of Polish communities in the UK, Polska Britannica is a tender, gentle hymn to those that endured challenges beyond our comprehension before starting anew in an alien land – this is their story.

Extraordinary moment snapper captures incredibly rare albino deer in fields near his home

Amateur nature photographer Adrian Janiga couldn’t believe his eyes when he spotted the white deer frolicking in fields near his home in Dębica. But with scientists estimating there are only 1 in every 100,000 born, the question is WHERE did it come from?

Incredible forgotten photos reveal true horror of Red Army’s destruction of Gdańsk, but also its subsequent rebirth

Captured by Kazimierz Lelewicz, a prolific photographer who between 1945 and 1948 took hundreds of images documenting the death and subsequent resurrection of the city, 75 years on, his photographs are a poignant testament to both the realities of war and the steadfast determination to rebuild anew.

Harrowing documents of Jews seeking passports to flee Hitler’s death camps handed over to Auschwitz Museum

The unique collection sent to WWII Polish diplomats known as the Ładoś Group who tried to save the Jews from being murdered, was acquired from a private owner in Israel thanks to the efforts of the Polish Embassy in Bern and Markus Blechner, a Polish honorary consul in Zurich.

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