ORGANIZER
The Visavis.pl Photographers’ Collective
Founded by Przemysław Krzakiewicz and Łukasz Trzciński, is a venture that brings together established Polish documentary photographers. The Visavis.pl photographers comment on reality in a subjective manner, looking for inspiration often in the most banal elements of everyday life. Using the Internet and mobile telephony they have managed to create a multimedia approach to showing photo reports, called "fotokast". It is a cycle of images that are enriched by additional media, such as sounds, music and people's comments on the undertaken subject. Thanks to that, the receivers have the opportunity to get to know better the participants of the multimedia photo-story.
PARTNERS
The foundation was established in 2005 by documentary photographers living and working in Krakow: Andrzej Kramarz, Łukasz Trzciński, Weronika Łodzińska-Duda, Wojtek Nowicki, Piotr Trybalski. Its aim is the popularisation of works of visual arts, especially photography. For that purpose the foundation is using non-conventional exhibition methods and new media.
Foundation for the Development of Visual Arts
The foundation is the main organizer of the Photomonth in Krakow, one of the leading European photography festivals and one of largest ongoing cultural events in Poland.
Camelot Gallery was established to promote a photographic output of the photographers of the whole world. The gallery organises exhibitions, workshops, film screenings and meetings with authors. The other field of activity is dynamically developing with a freely accessible reading room of foreign magazines dedicated to audiovisual arts.
COOPERATION 2010
VII PHOTO AGENCY VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed from the outset to be an efficient, technologically enabled distribution hub for some of the world's finest photojournalism, VII has been responsible for creating and relaying to the world many of the images that define the turbulent opening years of the 21st century. Alexandra Boulat, Ron Haviv, Gary Knight, Antonin Kratochvil, Christopher Morris, James Nachtwey and John Stanmeyer were joined in 2004 by Joachim Ladefoged. Marcus Bleasdale and Franco Pagetti joined in November 2007 and Stephanie Sinclair became a member in 2009. Together they document conflict - environmental, social and political, both violent and non-violent - to produce an unflinching record of the injustices created and experienced by people caught up in the events they describe. read more On September 9th 2001, VII announced its formation. On the following night, covering for the missed return flight of a colleague, James Nachtwey arrived at his Manhattan apartment close to the World Trade Center. The next morning, he photographed some of the most haunting pictures of the collapse of the towers, at the same time eloquently conveying the destruction of a way of life. While the stark realities of the battlefield loom large, VII turns its gaze with equal intensity to more subtle forms of conflict and documenting the changes and development of society and culture worldwide. But this is not merely artfully captured, neutral observation; nor is it the doctrinaire elaboration of a political or social position. Each photographer is inspired by an array of often very different motivations, and it is from this breadth of reference that the agency draws its originality and strength. What unites VII's work is a sense that, in the act of communication at the very least, all is not lost; the seeds of hope and resolution inform even the darkest records of inhumanity; reparation is always possible; despair is never absolute.
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.
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.
Malopolska Institute of Culture
MIC is a institution of culture answerable to the local authorities, formed as a result of the modernisation of the Malopolska Cultural Centre in 2002. By building long-term development programmes based on partnership relations MIC aims to create a community of cultural organizations based in Malopolska region, so they have opportunities to cooperate and support one another.
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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