The images, displayed in the city’s Market Square, capture everyday life in Wrocław during the decades of communist rule.
Organizers describe the exhibition as a unique journey back in time to the Poland of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
Several dozen photos are on display, some of which have never been exhibited before.
Niedenthal told reporters that his interest in Wrocław dates back to the 1960s.
"While on holiday in Poland back then, I met a group of interesting, kind young people there, and whenever I visited Poland in later years, I always included Wrocław on my itinerary," he said.
In 1982, shortly after the communist regime imposed martial law, Niedenthal was commissioned by the West German magazine Geo to produce a photo report from Wrocław.
Reflecting on the exhibition, Niedenthal said: "It occurred to me that this is the largest collection of photos documenting daily life in Poland that I have taken in my long career. In the '60s and '70s, even in the '80s, Wrocław was a grey, drab and neglected city. Yet it had potential. Now it’s a beautiful city which has used its potential."
The exhibition runs until the end of August.
Born in 1950 in London to a family of Polish émigrés, Niedenthal got his first camera from his parents when he was 11 as a gift for passing an exam with flying colours.
Thanks to his two uncles in Poland, whom he visited for holidays, he developed an early passion for photography.
After settling in Poland in his early 20s, Niedenthal began documenting life under communism on a freelance basis.
Chris Niedenthal. Photo: Grzegorz Śledź/PR
In 1978, shortly after the election of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyła as pope, Niedenthal became the first photojournalist to report from the pontiff's hometown of Wadowice.
He covered Pope John Paul II’s 1979 pilgrimage to Poland and the Gdańsk Shipyard strike in 1980.
On December 14, 1981, a day after the imposition of martial law, Niedenthal took one of his most iconic photos: an armoured personnel carrier in front of Warsaw’s Moskwa (Moscow) cinema, beneath a banner advertising the film Apocalypse Now.
After spending six years in Vienna at Time magazine’s Eastern Europe bureau, Niedenthal returned to Poland in 1993.
He has also authored several socially engaged projects, focusing on children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities, Polish-Jewish relations, and broader themes of tolerance.
In recent years, he has returned to photojournalism.
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