COOPERATION 2009

 

MediaStorm
MediaStorm was founded in March 2005 by Brian Storm. The authors focus on creating cinematic narratives for distribution across a variety of platforms, through utilizing animation, audio, video and the power of still photography. The high quality of MediaStorm's multimedia productions is confirmed by  numerous distinctions and awards as Emmy Award in New Media category for Crisis Guide: Darfur and Webby Awards.

Magnum Photos
Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative of great diversity founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour. Through its four editorial offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, and a network of fifteen sub-agents, Magnum Photos provides photographs to the press, publishers, advertising, television, galleries and museums across the world. The Magnum Photos library is a living archive updated daily with new work from across the globe. Within the library, most of the major world events and personalities from the Spanish Civil War to the present day are covered.

Magnum in Motion
Founded in New York, in 2004, Magnum In Motion is the multimedia digital studio of Magnum Photos. In Motion assembles visual narratives for online and offline platforms, including screenings in museums, festivals, and workshops, and soon, a DVD collection. On the website may be viewed more than hundred podcasts on various subjects - from United States presidential election, through current situation in Cuba to war in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Sputnik Photos
Sputnik Photos International Association of Photojournalists was founded by 10 photographers from Eastern and Central European countries and Georgia. Their aim is to present important social issues concerning Central European Countries and the East part of European Union. All members: Andrej Balco (Slovakia), Jan Brykczyński (Poland), Rafał Milach (Poland), Agnieszka Rayss (Poland), Manca Juvan (Slovenia), Domen Pal (Slovenia), Justyna Mielnikiewicz (Georgia), Filip Singer (Czech Republic), Janis Pipars (Latvia), Andrei Liankevich (Belarus), Viktor Suvorov (Ukraine) are experienced photographers who worked in Afghanistan, Abkhazia, Russia, Serbia, India, Georgia, Cambodia, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Ukraine and many others. Their photographs appeared in international publications including Time, The Sunday Times, Paris Match, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, National Geographic, Newsweek among others. Their project "At the Border", that describes the illegal labour markets in the European Union new member countries, was awarded by European Cultural Foundation.

Instytut ProFotografia
ProFotografia Institute was founded to promote documentary photography. Thanks to cooperation with Wyższa Szkoła Nauk Humanistycznych i Dziennikarstwa in Poznan/Poland ProFotografia presents its exhibition project "Fotodokument" in 2piR Gallery. To promote documentary photography in Poland and Polish photography abroad ProFotografia created a web portal, promotes new forms of photographic narrative and cooperates with Noorderlicht Festival among others.

The Institute of National Remembrance

- Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (IPN). The IPN is responsible for gathering, assessing, custody and disclosing the documentation created between July 22nd, 1944 and the December 31st, 1989 by Polish security agencies. Another major responsibility of the Institute is to investigate Communist and Nazi crimes as well as war crimes and crimes against humanity and peace and also IPN is in charge of public education on all above mentioned subjects.

Gazeta Wyborcza
It is the most important and influential Polish newspaper. It was established in 1989 as a platform of first democratic parliamentary elections in Poland. Nowadays, daily Gazeta Wyborcza is the preferably bought and read daily newspaper and appears in 23 Polish cities. The Photo Department exists in Gazeta Wyborcza from the very beginning when there have worked 6 photographers from Warsaw. Now there are more than 80 photographers in the whole country and some contributors abroad. Photographers from Gazeta Wyborcza have been awarded on numerous prestigious photography contests: World Press Photo and Grand Press Photo. Multimedia productions have been created there since 2008 as a result of inspiration which the photographers and editors gained during workshops leaded by Brian Storm, the head of MediaStorm.

Newseek Polska
Newsweek Polska is a sociopolitical weekly magazine, the Polish edition of American Newsweek. It has been published since 2001 by Axel Springer Polska. The weekly Newsweek prepares numerous education programs for high schools as "Junior Newsweek" or "Między Wierszami" and periodic rating of schools, universities, hospitals and others. Newsweek also organizes prestigious conferences and business ratings. On Polish Newsweek's website are presented podcasts relating to current issues in Poland and abroad.

Onet.pl
Onet is the biggest Polish web portal that leads more than 200 comprehensive thematic services. It is one of the most popular web portals in Europe monthly visited by more than 10 million Polish users. The services created by Onet.pl are leaders on the market in many thematic categories. Onet Group is also important employer in IT that hires several hundred people in companies in Warsaw and Cracow.  

APPLE
One of the world's first producer of personal computers. Nowadays Apple is mostly known for Macintosh computers, iPod music players, iTunes media browser, iPhone multimedia smartphone and Mac OS X operating system.

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