warsaw Sep 2010

Warsaw-based AF PHOTO is the hub for Polish creative photography, representing a range of professionals including hair and make-up artists and stylists for high quality productions.

Recent work includes Madame Germany, Avon UK, Margaret Astor and Gillette.
The agency recently strengthened its portfolio with the addition of hair stylist Piotr Wasinski.

Over the past few months, AF PHOTO talents have been extremely busy shooting upcoming campaigns across Europe in cities including Barcelona, Paris and Berlin.

• Aldona Karczmarczyk for Avon CCC.
• Rafal Milach for House Clothing fall/winter campaign.
• Agata Pospieszynska for Play Mobile.
• Mateusz Stankiewicz for Reserved, Caterina and Mohito.
• Piotr Wasinski hair styling for Timotei.

Branch is a full service photography production company that provides professional art buying services and represents some of the world's leading advertising photographers.
Operating in the Central and Eastern European markets, Branch offers full production support for both international and Polish clients.

The company assists clients in activities ranging from creative logistics and conceptual design to set direction and post production coordination while constantly paying special attention to detail.

Branch uses expert staff with wide-ranging experience in production, communication, advertising and filmmaking.

Clients include brands such as Coca-Cola, Nescafe, Jacobs, HSBC, Volkswagen, Mercedes, BMW, Renault, Pantene, WWF, Snickers, Avon, Orange, Ferrero, Samsung, Wrigley, Nikon, Play, Nokia, Johnnie Walker, Novartis, Nike, to name just a few.

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Photogram was established in 2007 to represent Polish photographers. Its current roster includes:

• Wolowski&Partners Studio specialises in still life and 3D photography. With widespread international recognition, the studio had a recent photo for Euro RSCG Warsaw published in the latest edition of '200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide' issued by magazine Archive.
• Kobas Laksa is a well-known Polish artist who produces conceptual projects. For his photograph of the Polonia Hotel entitled 'The Afterlife of Buildings', he was given an Art and Culture Ministry Award. The Polonia Hotel is a series of architectural transformations for which Poland won the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice.
• Robert Zuchniewicz focuses on portraiture and lifestyle photography. He is currently in collaboration with a selection of Polish magazines and is photo manager for Kikimora magazine.

Photogram offers full photography production services, mock-ups, casting, location scouting and management. The company collaborates with most of the major Polish advertising agencies and works on projects for foreign agencies such as Grey, Leo Burnett, Lowe, Ogilvy and JWT.

SHOOTME photographers and production represents talented photographers whose skills  are based in the fine arts but who have blossomed in a variety of ways to cover the wide spectrum of clients' expectations.

The quality and originality of the company's commercial projects comes from the individual style and constant development of each photographer. They use modern technology but it is the innovative approach and feeling of actual trends that makes their work exceptional.

SHOOTME cooperates with leading production service professionals to fulfil every project with mutual inspiration, from concept through to creation and project delivery, at home in Poland and around the globe.

Summer 76 is a leading Polish agency composed of Summer Production and 76 Management.

Summer Production offers photographic and film services as well as contact to a world of artistic professionals and art buying. Summer guarantees efficiency and a smooth production process, providing professional and comprehensive implementation for projects from conception through to the organisation of production and post production until the final product. The company applies solutions from both film and photography and its team is made up of professionals who have been devoted to both areas for many years.

76 Management is one of the most distinguished and awarded artists agencies in Poland. 76 represents artists whose professional experience combined with their unique talents provide the best results for all types of photographic and film assignments. Both the campaigns and personal work created by the company's artists are widely recognisable and highly valued.

Fotografowie.com create very intricate frames by filling them with emotion, humour and all sorts of nuances captured from the surrounding reality or arranged accordingly in their studio. They cooperate with advertising agencies and publishing houses.

The group handles the logistics and technical issues of photo production, dealing with all aspects from conception through to the organization of a shot, maintenance, equipment rental and postproduction. They cooperate with many hair stylists and makeup artists, stylists and creative directors.

Daniel Raczynski - the main photographer - graduate of photography at the Polish Film School in Lodz. He has been working in the field for 10 years using his knowledge, aesthetic sense and experience.

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MAG agency was created out of a passion for commercial and art photography and specialises in combining both in fashion, landscape and advertising projects. The 'MAGicians' are always excited by new challanges and demand absolute self-perfection when it comes to creating unique images.

In 2010 the company won the PX3 photo competition and clients including Artistic Pottery, Pfizer and Hasco-Lek have used its work.

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Tomek Dyczewski is one of the most talented and flexible professionals specialised in 2D and 3D technologies. During his commercial sessions he focuses on getting a clear and understandable advertising message. His vast experience and knowledge of graphics software allows him to create material tuned for post production and editing, in which he is also an expert.

Tomek cooperates with leading advertising agencies including BBDO, Ogilvy, DDB, Draftfcb, Lowe and McCann Erickson taking photos for clients including Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Mazda, Suzuki, KIA, Procter&Gamble, CNN, Peroni, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Diverse, Peek&Cloppenburg, Americanos, Knorr, Lotos, TUI, Panasonic, Play, Polmos, Finlandia, Tyskie, PZU, TP S.A., TVN, CYFRA+, BPH, BRE, DB Kredyt, Multibank, and many others.

Lucas Tomaszewski was born in 1980 and began his career as a professional photographer in 2008. He has worked for many clients shooting fashion, advertising and beauty photography through his own production studio, DestinyOne.

His main motivation as a photographer and producer is to deliver high-quality images for every client through fascinating pictures that can be recognized for both their commercial and artistic merit depending on the assignment.

His primary goal is to develop as a photographer and create better pictures with every new shoot.

Andrzej Tyszko is one of the leading Polish photographers and has been shooting professional photography since 1980. Human beings are his principle subject.

Andrzej has worked for some of the biggest international advertising agencies with his images featuring in commercial campaigns for many Polish and international brands.

He has also presented his work in a series of individual exhibitions, including four portraiture and two nude photography shows.

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Located in a former lace factory on Burakowska Street, the artists at Jaga Hupalo & Thomas Wolff Hair Design apply their unique skills to transform the image of some the biggest stars in Polish show-business. The atelier teaches art, patience and craft to achieve the finest results.

The company has collaborated with fashion magazines and marketing agencies including Elle, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Saatchi & Saatchi and Pro Media House.

Jaga has also designed hair-dos for prestigious National Opera and Music Theatre productions including 'Otello', 'Madame Butterfly', 'Oniegin' and 'Cats'. She also invented 'J&T Hairsystem', her own line of haircare products.
 

Cafe Ole was established in 1999 and is now one of the biggest sound studios in Warsaw. It provides high-quality services to film production companies and advertising agencies with an award-winning team of sound directors and composers producing TV, cinema and radio commercials. The studio also specialises in full sound production for feature films and documentaries.

Cafe Ole offers VO recording, post synchronisation, dubbing, pre-mix for coding in Dolby systems, sound design, voice castings and a sound effects library. The studio regularly collaborates with famous composers and enjoys unlimited access to the world's largest music libraries.

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Televisor is a group of talented artists with loads of imagination, great 3D/2D skills, way too many Red Bulls and a track record of making clients very happy.

"We are proud of our work and immensely enjoy making it."

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Futu Magazine is a Polish magazine that approaches a different design studio to provide art direction for each issue.

Futu is an exclusive international and bilingual album released twice a year in Warsaw.

Futu brings a new look to design, photography, fashion and luxury by combining advanced publishing techniques with the newest trends in graphic design and typography.

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