AUTHORS 2010
Barr Zachary - audio producer and reporter, co-operating with MediaStorm; he began in public radio in 2003 at Sound Portraits Productions in New York on the oral history project StoryCorps. His reporting has been on NPR, Living on Earth, Slate, MediaStorm, Marketplace, and in The New York Times. Zachary and a photographer collaborated on a project about families of American soldiers killed in the Iraq war. That work is now a book titled Never Coming Home. Zachary attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine, and earned a history degree at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon.
Boulat Alexandra - born in Paris, France, May 2nd 1962 and died in Paris on the 5th of October 2007. She was originally trained in graphic art and art history, at the Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1989 she follows the step of her father Photographer Pierre Boulat, who worked 25 years for LIFE magazine, and became a photojournalist as well. She was represented by Sipa Press for 10 years until 2000. In 2001 she co-founded VII photo agency. Her news and features stories were published in many international magazines, above all National Geographic Magazine, Time and Paris-Match. She has recieved many of the most prestigious international photography awards for her work. read more Boulat covered news, conflicts and social issues as well as making extensive reportages on countries and people. Among her many varied assignments, she reported on the wars in former Yugoslavia from 1991 until 1999, including Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo; the fall of the Taliban, the Iraqi people living under the embargo in the 90s, and the invasion of Baghdad by the coalition in 2003. During the last few years she was working on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. She also photographed Yasser Arafat's family life and Yves Saint Laurent's last show in 2001. Other large assignments include country stories on Indonesia and Albania, and a people story on the Berbers of Morocco. Her latest work was on Muslim Women in the Middle East and Gaza. Alexandra Boulat was the architect of one of the most deliberate, focused and militant bodies of work on the victims - particularly women - of conflict and injustice of our time.
Gardi Balazs - independent photographer, Balazs Gardi works to capture stories about marginalized communities in desperate situations. He spends time with people struck by the harshest conditions as events unfold in overpopulated slums, refugee camps, natural disasters, war zones, and other crisis areas, which are often under-represented in the mainstream media. read more Gardi believes that only honest attention wins the trust and reaches the real emotions and personal stories of people entangled in such life-threatening situations. He uses this approach to identify early symptoms of catastrophes before they develop into sensational news stories or gain widespread attention. Gardi spent two years following how the Roma (gypsy) minorities trying to deal with their growing poverty, declining social status and appalling living conditions in a dozen Eastern European countries. He has traveled regularly to Afghanistan and Pakistan to document life in a region in a state of insecurity and a downward spiral that is dragging these countries back to open warfare. In recent years, his attention has gradually turned to reporting the local harbingers of the global water crisis. This has evolved into "Facing Water Crisis," his most ambitious photography project to date. It features an expanding series of individual stories about the most life-threatening environmental crisis mankind has ever faced, covering numerous heavily affected regions around the world.
Haviv Ron - award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War. Numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including The Louvre, United Nations, and the Council on Foreign Relations. A co-founder of the photo agency VII, his work is published by magazines worldwide. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography – Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul. read more Haviv has been the central character in three films including National Geographic Explorer's Freelance in a World of Risk that explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on NPR, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, The Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight and CNN.
Klimowicz Tim - a designer at MediaStorm whose work spans a wide gamut, from design and photography to his ongoing interactive mapping project, Iraq War Coalition Fatalities, which has received considerable media recognition from multiple media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal Online, Spiegel International, MSNBC and Salon.com, and been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Born and raised in New York City, Klimowicz studied Graphic Design at the School of Visual Arts and an Associate of Applied Science in Network Administration from LaGuardia Community College.
Knight Gary - Knight's entry into photojournalism began as a bid to fulfill his idealistic and romantic impulses and escape what he saw as the monotony of life in middle-class England during the Thatcher years. In the late 1980’s and the early 1990’s, he made Southeast Asia his home and embarked on a portrayal of the internecine warfare within a region coming to terms with the end of the Cold War. By 1993 he had moved to the former Yugoslavia and became immersed in the subject that would come to dominate his photography during that period; that of documenting the effects of war on civilian populations. After pioneering the launch of the VII Photo Agency in September 2001, Knight followed the development of events in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He was one of only a few non-embedded photographers covering the invasion of Iraq alongside the U.S. Marines. read more His work has been widely published by magazines all over the world, exhibited globally, is in the collections of several museums and private collectors and has been the recipient of numerous high profile awards. Knight has initiated a broad education programme with Universities and NGO’s worldwide principally focused on educating young people from developing economies. In June 2008 Knight launched a new quarterly magazine, dispatches, a cutting edge single-issue journal which examines the greatest global challenges of our time. In each edition, dispatches, focuses 25,000 words and up to 100 pages of photography on one crucial issue: http://www.rethink-dispatches.com. Knight is also a founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, a board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, a trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, Juror and past Chairman of the World Press Photo Award, Chairman of the StopTB Partnership Advisory Board, permanent member of the Frontline Club Award jury and a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine. Gary Knight is on sabbatical with a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University for 2009 - 2010.
Kratochvil Antonin - a founder of the VII photo agency. As photojournalists go, Antonin Kratochvil has sunk his teeth into his fair share of upheaval and human catastrophes whilst going about his documentation of the time in which he lives. As people go, Kratochvil's own refugee life has been much in the way the same as what he has rendered on film. Kratochvil's unique style of photography is the product of personal experience, intimate conditioning and not privileged voyeurism. Over the years his fluid and unconventional work has been sought by numerous publications stretching across widely differing interests. From shooting Mongolia's street children for the magazine published by the Museum of Natural History to a portrait session with David Bowie for Detour, from covering the war in Iraq for Fortune Magazine to shooting Deborah Harry for a national advertising campaign for the American Civil Liberties Union, Kratochvil's ability to see through and into his subjects and show immutable truth has made his pictures not facsimiles but uncensored visions. read more And yet, what set his kind apart from the many is his consistency and struggle to carry on. For Kratochvil this fact comes in the form of his numerous awards, grants and honorable mentions dating back to 1975. The latest of these are his two, first place prizes at the 2002 World Press Photo Awards in the categories of general news and nature and the environment. The next is the 2004 grant from Aperture publishing for Kratochvil's study on the fractious relationship between American civil liberties and the newly formed Homeland Security since the World Trade Center bombings. In addition, Kratochvil's fifth book Vanishing was presented in April 2005 and marks another significant milestone for the craft to which he belongs. Vanishing represents a collection of natural and human phenomena that on the verge of extinction. What makes this book so innovative is the twenty years it has taken to produce, making it not only historical from the onset, but a labor of love and a commitment to one man's conscience.
Ladefoged Joachim (b. 1970) - joined the VII Photo Agency in 2004. In 1987, at the age of 16, Joachim's dream of becoming a soccer player was shattered when he was almost crippled by rheumatism. A year later he got his first camera, with the hope that photography could bring him closer to the activities his illness prevented him from. Three years later he joined a small regional newspaper in Denmark, shooting up to six assignments a day. From 1995-1998 he was a staff photographer at the national newspaper, Politiken. read more He has worked in more than 50 countries for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, National Geographic, Mare, TIME and Newsweek. He has won international recognition for covering war, conflict and ordinary life. Visa d'Or, World Press Photo, Life Magazine, AGFA and Denmark's Picture of the Year competition, are among the organizations that have seen fit to award Joachim for his work. He has been named one of Photo District News Magazine's '30 under 30,' and has participated in the Joop Swart Master Class at World Press Photo. In 2000 he published his first book, Albanians, about the turbulent life of the Albanians between 1997-1999, from the pyramid scheme collapse to the war, exodus and subsequent homecoming to Kosovo. At VII he has contributed to two major book projects, “Tsunami” and the “Congo: Forgotten War." He has had several solo & group exhibitions and is represented at the collection of the Danish Royal Library. He is credited with being one of the driving forces behind the new wave of Danish photojournalism. In February 2008, he released his second book, Mirror, about the obsessive world of bodybuilding. Joachim lives in Denmark, with his wife and their two boys.
Lichtenstein Andrew - a native of New York City, is a documentary photographer who works on long-term stories of social concern, co-operates with MediaStorm. Lichtenstein's work on prisons and incarceration has appeared in books, newspapers, and magazines, including U.S. News and World Report, Time, and the New York Times. His series of photographs titled "Witness to an Execution" were inspired by a Sound Portraits radio documentary of the same name that aired on NPR's All Things Considered and won a Peabody Award in 2000. read more His photographs have been exhibited around the world, including China, UAE, Italy and France. In 1999, his photographs appeared in a previous Moving Walls series, and in 2000 he received a Soros Justice Fellowship from the Open Society Institute. In 2007 Charta published his first book - Never Coming Home.
Nachtway James - grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver. In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil, Iraq, and the United States. Nachtwey has been a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1984. In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the photo agency, VII. read more He was associated with Black Star from 1980 - 1985 and was a member of Magnum from 1986 until 2001. He has had solo exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, the Palazzo Esposizione in Rome, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego, Culturgest in Lisbon, El Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, the Canon Gallery and the Nieuwe Kerk in Amsterdam, the Carolinum in Prague,and the Hasselblad Center in Sweden, among others. Nachtwey was also the subject of the 2002 Oscar Nominated Documentary 'The War Photographer' by Swiss filmaker Christian Frei. He has received numerous honours such as the Commonwealth Award, Martin Luther King Award, Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award, Henry Luce Award, Robert Capa Gold Medal (five times), the World Press Photo Award (twice), Magazine Photographer of the Year (eight times), the International Center of Photography Infinity Award (three times), the Leica Award (twice), the Bayeaux Award for War Correspondents (twice), the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Canon Photo essayist Award, the Leipzig Award for Freedom of the Press, the Daniel Pearl Award, The Dan David Prize, and the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant in Humanistic Photography. He is a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and has an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Arts.
Newsreportaż 2009 - winners of the photo competition "Newsreportaż 2009" in category Fotokasty: Magdalena Wadowska, Michał Łuczak, Wojciech Gruszka, Albert Zawada, Dominika Podczasa - Tchórzewska, Adam Golec, Sergiusz Wasilewski, Krystian Bielatowicz, Rafał Michalski, Paweł Łączny, Konrad Grześlak, Przemysław Krzakiewicz, Tomasz Wiech, Mariusz Forecki, Aleksander Prugar, Norbert Roztocki.
Sinco Luis - a photographer for the Los Angeles Times, co-operating with MediaStorm. In the fall of 2004, Sinco covered the assault on Fallouja as an embedded journalist with troops from the 8th Marine Regiment. He took the famous photograph of Cpl. James Miller of Kentucky – cigarette hanging from his lips, nose bloodied, face dirtied – in what has become known as the “Marlboro man” photo. Sinco was part of the Times’ team of journalists who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for their coverage of the California wildfires. read more Prior to joining the Times in 1997, he was a freelance photographer, a staff photographer for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and an associate editor for the Philippine American News. Sinco has won numerous awards, including honors from the Los Angeles Press Club, Pictures of the Year International, National Association of Hispanic Journalists and Asian American Journalists Association. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Washington.
AUTHORS 2009
Ashburn Kristen – is a documentary photographer based in New York City who has received numerous honors including the National Press Photographers Association's Best of Photojournalism (2006, 2003) and two World Press Photo prizes (2005, 2003). She received the Getty Foundation Grant 2006, Canon’s Female Photojournalist Award in 2004, and the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography 2003. Cooperates with MediaStorm.
Bleasdale Marcus – is widely published in the UK, Europe and the USA in publications such as TIME, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Daily Telegraph, Harpers, Le Monde, Stern, Geo Magazine and National Geographic Magazine. Cooperates with MediaStorm. Marcus has received acclaim for his work over the years, including several First prizes in POYi, Olivier Rebbot and NPPA awards.He has spent eight years covering the brutal conflict within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the work was published in his book 'One Hundred Years of Darkness'.
Brown Patrick – photography regularly appears in Time, Der Spiegel magazine, BBC, The Australian, The Guardian, Liberation, The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), UNICEF International, among others. His works are in numerous international collections, including the Holmes a Court Collection and The Photography Gallery of Western Australia Collection. Cooperates with MediaStorm.
Dembiński Grzegorz – a journalist and photo-reporter. He cooperates with press and photo agency TAMTAM; worked for socio-cultural magazines; his reports were awarded on the numerous press photography contests; a co-founder of significant in Poland magazine www.5klatek.pl. At present, he is a head of photo department at a Polish newspaper – Głos Wielkopolski.
Dimmock Jessica (b. 1978) – is a graduate of The International Center of Photography. In 2006 she won both Magnum Photos' Inge Morath Award, and the F Award for Concerned Photography from Fabrica and Forma. Jessica shoots regularly for the New York Times Magazine, Fortune and Newsweek. Cooperates with MediaStorm.
Forecki Mariusz (b. 1962) – his surreal associations filled with humorous undertones mark the way of humanistic photography. He gained maturity as a photographer of the weekly Wprost in the 80s. His trip to Armenia to shoot the earthquake in 1987 influenced his future perception of people – the essential, actual protagonists of his photographs. He has been working for Poznaniak since 1991, and sporadically for Gazeta Wyborcza since 1997. Then he chose to be self employed and since 1998 he has been running his own press and photo agency TAMTAM. Graduated from The Institute of Creative Photography at Slaski University in Opava in 2003. Beside press photography, Forecki started his own artistic projects in the 90s. All his series completed to date depict variety of aspects of social life with special emphasis on the surprising development of morality and communities.
Golec Adam (b. 1970) – an alumnus of The National Film, Television & Theatre School in Łódź, a student of AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. A photographer and a reporter, member of the Polish Journalists Association. Since 1991, connected with Gazeta Wyborcza, where he coordinates the Kraków photo department. Multiple winner and laureate of press photography competitions. Received numerous awards in press photo competitions. Works with Agencja Gazeta and French agency VU. Publishes in Gazeta Wyborcza, Duży Format, Wysokie Obcasy (Gazeta Wyborcza supplements), Polish edition of National Geographic and Traveler, Gala, Viva, Elle, Przekrój, Tygodnik Powszechny, and others.
Gotfryd Tomasz (1981) – he studied in the Łódź film school. He received a municipal art scholarship, won the award of the Fundacja Fotografia dla Przyszłości (Photographs for the Future Foundation) in an international competition called Fotoodlot. In 2007 he won the Grandprix for a documentary on Wola Duchacka (a part of Krakow), for his film entitled Camera obscura, enter at your own risk. He has had numerous individual exhibitions including "Brainshoots" (London, 2005), "Krakowskie p-otwory" (as part of Photomonth in Krakow 2007) and "Nocne życie Krakowa" ("Night-life in Krakow", Krakow 2007). He published his works in the weeklies Newsweek Polska, Tygodnik Powszechny, Przekrój and magazines National Geographic, Forbes, Gala, Sukces, Elle or Twój Styl. Co-funder of "3czwarte" artistic group. Member of the Visavis.pl Photographers' Collective.
Jobard Olivier (b. 1970) – entered the École Louis Lumière in 1990. He joined Sipa as a staff photographer in 1992. His work has taken him around the world and into the heart of conflict zones in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Colombia, Croatia, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan. In 2004, he documented the passage of one immigrant from Cameroon to France over the course of six months. Cooperates with MediaStorm.
Krężel Bogdan (1969) – the enfant terrible of Polish portrait photography. He graduated from the Photography School at the Łódź Film School. He is a full-time photographer for the oldest Polish weekly illustrated magazine, Przekrój. One of the best portrait photographers in Poland. He takes photographs of the most important Polish art and political figures. He is author of a multitude of covers and illustrations for books printed by Znak Publishers - a publishing house in Kraków, W.A.B Publishers in Warsaw and Prószyński i Ska Publishing Company in Warszawa. The author of individual and collective exhibitions. Winner of many prizes. Member of the Visavis.pl Photographers' Collective.
Krzakiewicz Przemysław "El Emo" (b. 1975) – photographer, in 2005 founded together with Łukasz Trzciński a photo agency Visavis.pl – a dynamic venture of documentary photographers from around Poland. Initiator of the "fotokasty" project.
Lach Adam (b. 1983) – graduated from the WSF AFA Academy of Photography in Wrocław as an outstanding graduate. Awarded in press photo contests. Realized his photographic projects in Moldova, Transnistrian Republic, Romania and Germany. He is a co-founder and member of Napo Images Agency. Since 2006 permanent co-worker of Newsweek Polska weekly magazine. Since 2008 he has been cooperating with International Herald Tribune newspaper. He is an award winner of the Newsreportage – the Newsweek Poland contest and BZ WBK Press Photo Contest.
Łuczakowska Aga (b. 1981) – freelance photographer, in Poland cooperates with agencies EK PICTURES and Reporter, as well as with Atlas Press in New York. Previously, she worked as a photo-reporter in Dziennik Zachodni Polska The Times; her photographs have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers: National Geographic Magazine, Polityka, Dziennik, Dziennik Zachodni, Rzeczpospolita, Gazeta Wyborcza, Tygodnik Powszechny, Ravu, 5klatek.pl, XAOC magazine, Photobetty and others. In 2006 she started to work on a report about women in Turkey; in 2007 was a participant in Eddie Adams' photographic workshops in USA.
Maierson Eric – is multimedia producer in MediaStorm. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. His short films have been played at film festivals across the country and his writing has appeared in Playboy and McSweeney's, among others. At MediaStorm, Maierson won an Emmy award for producing Kingsley's Crossing.
Magnum Group - members of Magnum Photos, an international photographic cooperative of great diversity founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour. In 2004 was founded Magnum in Motion - 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.
Marczuk Andrzej (b. 1978) – graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava (Czech Republic). Assistant lecturer of Professor Bogdan Dziworski at Radio and Television Department at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He shoots everyday life, presents definitely more willingly people than places. Andrzej Marczuk conducts BlackBook.pl workshops in Gliwice. He works as Creative Director in "Wytwórnia Makaronu" [Pasta manufacturing] Agency.
Markiewicz Mateusz (EmSounds) - is a musician playing piano, graduated from Jazz School in Cracow. He produces electronic music with jazz elements. He produces sounds for websites, radio commercials and events. Collaborated with other musicians on reagge, jungle, hip hop projects. Searching new inspirations he is involved in projects where he plays with picture and sound.
Milach Rafal (b. 1978) – graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice (2002) and The Institute of Creative Photography in Opava (2003). He took part in the workshops for press photographers from Central and Eastern Europe organized by Agency VII in France. In 2006 Rafał became the scholar of the Foundation Kulturkontakt Austria. Year later he participated in workshop Joop Swart Masterclass organized by World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam. As freelancer Rafal Milach co-operates with such magazines as: Przekroj, Newsweek Polska, Polityka, Pani, Viva!, Elle. His photographs appeared also in international press: Newsweek, Die Zeit, L’espresso, Courier International, PHOTO, Guardian Weekend Magazine. The creation of Rafal was shown in Poland, Holland, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, China, Japan. His works are the part of collection Kiosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Kiosato (Japan). The photographs of Rafal Milach were awarded in many contests: World Press Photo, Pictures of The Year International, Contest of Polish Press Photography, Newsreportage, BZ WBK Press Foto, Grand Press Photo, Mio Photo Award.
Mirczak Katarzyna (b. 1980) – a graduate of the Institute of Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University specialising in Egypt and the Middle East. She was a photographer with an international archaeological expedition in the Black Sea basin, "Pontica – Koshary" organised by the Classical Archaeology Unit of the Jagiellonian University and the Archaeological Museum of Odessa. She won second place in Newsreportaż 2007 competition in the "Daily life" category for a cycle of photos entitled "KING, auto-shop" and third place in "Native photography" competition organised by Rzeczposolita, Olympus Polska and The National Museum in Warsaw. She cooperates with the Imago Mundi Foundation, Foundation for Visual Arts and the Visavis.pl Photographers' Collective.
Sagatowska Katarzyna (b. 1973) – an author of individual exhibitions and participant of numerous group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Publishes in magazines, newspapers and books. Constant co-operation with Luksfera Gallery and Flying Gallery. Co-founder of The House of Photography Society. Photographs are in private collections in Poland and abroad. Student at The Institute of Creative Photography, the University of Silesia, Opava, Czech Republic. Graduated from European Academy of Photography in Warsaw (2005), Faculty of Production Engineering at Warsaw Technical University (1999). Awarded with first prizes in photographic contests e. g. National Geographic Traveler magazine (2009), Newsreportaż 2003 of Newsweek Polska magazine.
Sojka Marcin (b. 1978) – freelancer. His works were presented during exhibitions in Poland, Spain and Macedonia. He is author of a multitude of covers and illustrations for books. He is working on a few projects nowadays: "The Blue Thing", "Lisboa, Madrit, Napoli...", "Sutka &Topana Kids" and "The Nude Serie".
Sokołowski Marcin – freelancer: graphic artist, programmer. Graphic design, 3d animation, computer-aided design, film editing and authoring dvd - it's his profession. He produces short advertising and TV spots. Since many years he has been collaborating with advertising agencies from Krakow and Warsaw. He also cooperates with radio RMF FM.
Solik Bartek (b. 1978) – graduate of English studies, photographer, radio reporter. Appreciated for his observations of everyday life. He won recognition for his documentary photographs published in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza, the weekly Polityka, Newsweek Polska and Przekrój. He was nominated for the Grand Press Photo award three times: in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He won numerous prizes, like BZ WBK Press Foto, National Geographic competition, Newsreportaż. The representatives of the media from Krakow awarded him with the title of the Photo Reporter of 2006.
Springer Filip (b. 1982) – graduated from Prehistory Institute of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Polskapresse Institute of Journalism. Scout instructor. Photographer and journalist. Regullary publishes in Polish daily newspaper Polska The Times and weekly magazine Polityka. He also published in such magazines as Newsweek Poland, Przekrój, Rzeczpospilita, Dziennik, Tygodnik Powszechny. Since 2002 he has photographed a community of fisherman living in Nowe Warpno (West Pomerania in Poland). He realizes a big project on the influences of architecture and town planning on relationships in society. Repeatedly awarded in Wielkopolska Press Photo. He lives and works in Poznań.
Storm Brian – is president of MediaStorm, a multimedia production studio based in New York City. He received his master's degree in photojournalism in 1995 from the University of Missouri. Prior to launching MediaStorm in 2005, Storm spent two years as vice president of News, Multimedia & Assignment Services for Corbis. From 1995 to 2002 Storm was director of multimedia at MSNBC.com, a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC News. He created The Week in Pictures and Picture Stories to showcase visual journalism in new media.
Torgovnik Jonathan – graduated with a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His photographs have been published in numerous international publications including Newsweek, GEO, The Sunday Times Magazine and Stern among others. Torgovnik's photographs are in the permanent collections of museums such as The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Bibliotheque National De France in Paris. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. Cooperates with MediaStorm.
Trzciński Łukasz (b. 1975) – graduated from the Łódź Film School, member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Cofounder of The Visavis.pl Photographers' Collective – a venture gathering top Polish documentary photographers, and the Imago Mundi Foundation, which promotes photography and its authors. Co-organiser of The Photomonth in Kraków. Photographer, reporter, has worked in over 40 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Indonesia, Russia and the Middle East. Until recently interested in Central and Eastern Europe. He is an award winner of the PoYI. Repeatedly awarded in the Press Photography Contest, his photographs have twice won the title of The Photo of the Year (1999 & 2000). Scholarship holder from The Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw. Author and curator of many exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
Wasilewski Sergiusz (b. 1969) – filmmaker, photographer. He studied in The National Film, Television & Theatre School in Łódź, student of Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. Since 1992 advertising and commercial photographer. He used to be interested in theatre photography. At the beggining of his work he made clips for hip-hop artists, next he changed his profession and started to make TV and film productions. He also makes music in his free time.
Wiech Tomasz (b. 1979) – Master of Art in Political Sciences. From 2004 has worked for one of the biggest Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza. Documentary photographer focused on last changes in Eastern Europe. His photo cycles were made in Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Ukraine. He is an award winner of the World Press Photo 2008, Polish Photo Contest BZ WBK Press Foto 2006, Polish Photo Contest Newsreportaz 2006 by Newsweek Polska.