Our motto is<\/strong><\/p>\r\n <\/strong><\/p>\r\n [\/vc_column_text]<\/p>\r\n <\/span>[vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” type=”full_width” in_content_menu=”” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″] Filmmaker and author inspired by exploration, expeditions, and popular science topics. Former Editor-in-Chief of National Geographic Poland and National Geographic Traveler magazines. Diver and climber. Studied chemistry in Warsaw, and directing, screenwriting and film production at Harvard and MIT. Explorer, vice-chairman and treasurer of The Explorers Club Polish Chapter. Speaker at the TED conference, Ministry of Culture grantee and author of six books. His reportage on the Steuben shipwreck was been published in National Geographic Magazine around the world in over 20 languages.<\/p> Cinematographer and photographer. Published her pictures in Newsweek, National Geographic, Polityka, Traveler, Financial Times, and Voyage magazines. A long-time photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. She has won awards at the Euro Press Photo Awards (Stockholm), the Polish Press Photo Contest (Warsaw) and the Humanity Photo Awards (China). Participant of exploratory expeditions and author of the photo exhibitions ``Steuben, a bloody secret of the Baltic Sea``, ``River of Treasures``, ``Territories`` and a series of artistic photographs for print collectors that transgresses photography and fine art painting.<\/p> [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” type=”full_width” in_content_menu=”” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n M<\/span>arcin is filmmaker and writer. Passionate rock climber and scuba diver who studied chemistry in Warsaw, Poland, and after graduation did research with lasers and organic dyes at the color science laboratory. In his mid-20s, he changed his career path and became a science writer for the science section of the largest newspaper in Central Europe. He penned about a thousand articles and shot his first two doc videos before being hired as editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine in Poland. After five years in that desk job, he went freelance, wrote six books, and followed his passion by studying filmmaking at Harvard and MIT.<\/p>\r\n Marcin’s favorite subjects have always been expeditions, exploration, and popular science stories. He has participated in or organized more than a dozen expeditions to five continents with exploratory, archaeological, or scientific goals. He has been a TED speaker and a recipient of a scholarship from the Polish Ministry of Culture. Marcin is a Fellow of The Explorers Club and is currently serving his second term as Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the Polish Chapter of the Club.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Education<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2009-10 \u2013 Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA.<\/p>\r\n 2000 \u2013 EICOS Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany<\/p>\r\n 1988-2003 \u2013 Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Work<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2008-Today – Owner of Adventure Pictures<\/p>\r\n 2004-2007 \u2013 editor-in-chief of National Geographic Poland<\/p>\r\n 2002-2004 \u2013 Deputy Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic Poland<\/p>\r\n 1995-2002 \u2013 journalist and editor in the science section and in the reportage section of Gazeta Wyborcza<\/p>\r\n 1993-1995 \u2013 Assistant at the Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw (interaction of laser light with matter).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Film<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2024 \u2013 “Stronger Than Ever”, 71\u2019 documentary film about the recovery of a rock climber and his quest to send the life-long dream climb.<\/p>\r\n 2023 \u2013 \u201cThe Scientific Magnificent Seven\u201d, 37\u2019 documentary video about 19th century Polish explorers on the Pacific.<\/p>\r\n 2022 \u2013 “Against the Sands of Time”, 40′ documentary video about archaeological excavations.<\/p>\r\n 2019 \u2013 “River of Treasures”, 73 minutes long documentary film (with Konstanty Kulik) about the underwater search and exploration of the 350-year-old treasure of the Polish king that started debate on past looting and the ownership of the art works.<\/p>\r\n 2010 \u2013 “No One Left Behind” – 25′ video about the last battle of the Vietnam War fought in Cambodia.<\/p>\r\n 2001 \u2013 “Higher than Lemurs” – short video on big wall expedition to Madagascar<\/p>\r\n 2000 \u2013 “Higher than Geckoes” – short documentary on big wall climbing expedition in Mali<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Books<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Author of three exploratory reportage books:<\/p>\r\n 2009 – Ghosts from the Abyss of the Baltic Sea<\/a><\/p>\r\n 2012 – The Old One, The Young Ones and the Sea<\/a><\/p>\r\n 2018 – Rescued from the Deluge<\/a> (aka “River of Treasures”)<\/p>\r\n and three popular science books for children:<\/p>\r\n 2017 – Great Explorers<\/a><\/p>\r\n 2017 – Great Inventors<\/a><\/p>\r\n 2019 – Great Scientists<\/a><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Public \/ motivational \/ corporate speaking<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2023 \u2013 Canon Christmas meeting, Warsaw, Poland<\/p>\r\n 2019 \u2013 AXA, Paris<\/p>\r\n 2018 \u2013 UN Climate Change Conference in Katowice (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP24)<\/p>\r\n 2016 \u2013 Agora SA corporate meeting, Dolina Charlotty.<\/p>\r\n 2012 \u2013 Congress of Innovative Economy, Warsaw<\/p>\r\n 2011 \u2013 Young Presidents’ Organization forum, Warsaw<\/p>\r\n 2010 \u2013 TEDx Warsaw<\/p>\r\n 2010 \u2013 today Canon company meetings<\/p>\r\n 2000 \u2013 PZU, address to the Management Board, Warsaw<\/p>\r\n 1995 \u2013 today dozens of speeches at various travel festivals, including: Kolosy, Terra, Trzy \u017bywio\u0142y, Gryfino Festival of Places and Travel W\u0142\u00f3czykij, Wielka Orkiestra \u015awi\u0105tecznej Pomocy in Samotnia, Festival of Wreck Diving, Festival Podwodna Przygoda, Baltitech and in cultural centers all over the country<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Press<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1995-2002 – published some 600 articles in Gazeta Wyborcza on scientific discoveries in archaeology, paleontology, chemistry and climate, as well as dozens of reports and photo essays on climbing, geography and diving expeditions<\/p>\r\n 2002-2007 – At National Geographic Polska, he edited about 100 issues of the magazine with the famous yellow frame, as well as National Geographic Traveler and special issues devoted to photography. He has written several articles himself, generally together with photographs. In 2004, Marcin became the leader of a National Geographic international diving expedition to the Baltic shipwreck “Steuben”. His story on the expedition was published on the cover of<\/p>\r\n National Geographic magazine in the USA and in more than 20 other languages around the world.<\/p>\r\n Since 2008 – as a freelance photographer, writer and filmmaker Marcin has taken part in dozens of expeditions and worked for many magazines and newspapers from the world (National Geographic, Outside, ng.com, Newsweek, Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Courrier International, The Explorers Journal) and from Poland (Newsweek, National Geographic, Traveler, Tw\u00f3j Styl, Kontynenty, Polityka, Podr\u00f3\u017ce).<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Photography<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1995-2002 – several photo essays for the weekly magazine Gazeta Wyborcza (currently Du\u017cyFormat)<\/p>\r\n 2002-2007 – approx. 25 photo essays for National Geographic Polska and National Geographic Traveler – on travel, climbing, kayaking, underwater exploration and scuba diving.<\/p>\r\n since 2007 – dozns of photo essays for Polish and international magazines and newspapers. One of them, about the world record in cave diving in Hranicka Propasta in the Czech Republic, was the lead story on NationalGeographic.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n Since 2005, member of the jury, or chairman, at several photographic competitions, including the National Geographic Great Photographic Competition, the Journalists’ Jury at the Kolosy Festival, the Three Elements Festival, the Tatra National Park competition, the Polish Tourist Organization competition.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Photographic exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1995 – Climbing in Tenerife<\/p>\r\n 2003 – The Last Wild Places on Earth (National Geographic group exhibition) 2004 – Exploration (National Geographic group exhibition)<\/p>\r\n 2005 – The bloody secret of the Baltic Sea (National Geographic exhibition) 2008 – The flood will come tomorrow (from Sudan)<\/p>\r\n 2006 – Adventure Pictures (best of)<\/p>\r\n 2010 – The Deepest Secrets of the Planet (group exhibition The Explorers Club) 2012 – Rescued from the Deluge (finding the treasure of King Jan Kazimierz)<\/p>\r\n 2013-15 – Territories (art, exhibition with Marzena Hmielewicz) exhibition shown in five galleries in Poland<\/p>\r\n 2017 – The underground world of Easter Island (exploration of the Rapa Nui caves)<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Awards<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2003 – Award for the best magazine (run by Martin National Geographic) in the Grand Front competition<\/p>\r\n 2004 – Honorary mention at the Explorers Festival in Lodz, Poland, for a story about the Baltic shipwrecks<\/p>\r\n 2008 – Honourable mention for a photo essay from Sudan ‘The Return of Christ from the Abyss’ in the Association of Science Journalists competition<\/p>\r\n 2009 – Award for the photo essay ‘The Underground World of Easter Island’ in the national BZ WBK Press Photo competition<\/p>\r\n 2014 – Book of the Year award of the monthly magazine \u017bagle for “‘Old’, young and the sea” (written with Jacek Wac\u0142awski)<\/p>\r\n 2015 – Performance Award at the Humanity Photo Awards in China (organised with UNESCO) for his photo essay on exorcism in Cairo<\/p>\r\n 2018 – Audience Award and Jury Distinction for the film “Rescued from the Flood” at the Zamosc History Film Festival “Encounters with History”<\/p>\r\n 2018 – Second Prize at the Festival of Civilisation and Media Art “Mediatravel” in Lodz for the film “Rescued from the Flood”<\/p>\r\n 2018 – Distinction in the Documentary Film category for “Rescued from the Deluge” at the International Historical and Military Film Festival in Warsaw<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n “credo”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Marcin has photographed, among others, in Sudan, Oman, Rwanda, Cambodia, Morocco, Turkey, Chile, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Greenland and in several European Union countries as well as Russia, Norway and Switzerland.<\/p>\r\n Many of Marcin’s publications revolve around ‘extreme’ topics – climbing, diving and surviving in difficult conditions, while carrying out research and exploration: in high mountains and deserts – both sandy (Sahara) and icy (Greenland). With a high diving qualification (Full Trimix CMAS), Marcin was not only a chronicler, but also a fully-fledged participant in underwater expeditions to dozens of wrecks in the Baltic Sea and remote Sierra Leone, under the Greenland icebergs, to flooded caves in Mexico, the Czech Republic, Serbia, or to the sunken tunnels of a forgotten line of the Warsaw underground from the 1950s.<\/p>\r\n Thanks to his climbing skills (7c+ RP, 7b OS), Marcin took part in expeditions conquering virgin 600-metre vertical walls in Mali (southern Sahara) and Madagascar, as well as in the high Andes (sources of the Amazon). Survival skills, in turn, came in handy when excavating the tomb of a Nubian king in the Bayuda Desert in Sudan. Marcin’s photo essays from these expeditions were published in major Polish magazines.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Hobbies<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Climbing (7c+ RP, 7b OS), Scuba diving (CMAS Full Trimix)<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n B<\/span>orn in Wroc\u0142aw, Poland, at a time when black and white photography was the standard rather than an artistic choice. Photographer, artist, photo-journalist and cinematographer. Her motto is the words of painter Edward Dwurnik: “One must paint beautiful pictures, because beauty is the quintessence of life<\/em>“.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n “credo”<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Exploration invariably brings great joy. Seeking the new, the unknown. Pushing the boundaries of cognition. Exploration. The physical one – discovering new lands, new places; the scientific one – arriving at new ideas and phenomena. New people. New paths. This is what I have been doing for years – exploring the world of photography. I look for new functions and new TERRITORIES for my photographs. I abandon the rush of press photography and immerse myself in the world refracted in a drop of water, reflected in a sheet of ice, rippled on the surface of a pond or noticed in the harmony of a forest.<\/p>\r\n My photographs come from expeditions to those far away as well as to the closest corners of the world. Many of them were taken in the place where I live, the Kampinos Forest. They are united by an infinite attention to detail, to light, to the moment. They elevate photography to the status of painting – from impressionism to the art of calligraphy.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n I was born in Wroclaw in the era of black and white photography but not daguerreotype photography. I photograph professionally (mainly reportage) and out of passion.<\/p>\r\n I studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. For many years I was a photojournalist for Gazeta Wyborcza, Du\u017cy Format, Wysokie Obcasy. Currently, my photographs are published in the biggest Polish magazines National Geographic, Newsweek, Kontynenty, Polityka, Tw\u00f3j Styl. I have had individual and collective exhibitions (“To break away from the earth”, “Steuben, the bloody secret of the Baltic”, “Rescued from the Flood”, “Territories”, “Ta Puszcza mnie nie wypuszcza”) . I am a winner of Polish and international photo competitions ( Euro Press Photo Awards – Stockholm 1995, Polish Press Photography Competition – Warsaw 1995, Humanity Photo Awards – China 2015). Together with Marcin Jamkowski we create the photo collective Adventure Pictures www.adventurepictures.eu.<\/a><\/p>\r\n The photographs on this site, and others from my collection, are not subject to computer manipulation. They are processed and smeared, but are a reflection of reality.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Education<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 2009-2010 – Audiovisual techniques, MIT, Cambridge, USA<\/p>\r\n 1996-2000 – Academy of Fine Arts, Pozna\u0144, Department of Photography<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Work<\/strong><\/p>\r\n since 2008 – freelance photographer at Adventure Pictures photo collective<\/p>\r\n since 2002 – cooperation with National Geographic Poland and NG in the USA<\/p>\r\n 1993-2006 – photojournalist at Gazeta Wyborcza.<\/p>\r\n Cinematographer in two big documentary feature projects \u201cStronger than Ever\u201d and \u201cRiver of Treasures\u201d<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Photography<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1993-2006 – several dozen large photo essays on everyday life and art as well as travel, discovery and adventure published in Gazeta Wyborcza, Du\u017cy Format and Wysokie Obcasy. Numerous portraits of personalities from the world of culture and politics, as well as thousands of single photographs on current events in Poland, European countries and even Afghanistan, Madagascar and Belize.<\/p>\r\n Since 2002 – while cooperating with National Geographic Marzena has photographed several commissioned subjects and photo essays according to her own idea. She has taken part in several National Geographic expeditions, including NG’s first expedition to Poland – to the Baltic wreck of the Steuben.<\/p>\r\n Since 2008 – in the photographic collective Adventure Pictures, created together with Marcin Jamkowski, Marzena has expanded the portfolio of magazines and newspapers for which she takes photos to include:<\/p>\r\n National Geographic Traveler<\/p>\r\n Newsweek<\/p>\r\n Financial Times<\/p>\r\n Tw\u00f3j Styl<\/p>\r\n Travel<\/p>\r\n Continents<\/p>\r\n Policy<\/p>\r\n Voyage<\/p>\r\n Agora’s publications<\/p>\r\n Bauer publications<\/p>\r\n World Book Publishing<\/p>\r\n MultiCo and others.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Photographic exhibitions<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1994 – Such is the end of a great name – Cistercians in Silesia 1995 – Breaking away from the earth<\/p>\r\n 1996 – A Song Will Remind You – about the Actors’ Song Festival,<\/p>\r\n 1996 – Women of the Newspaper – in the Corridor Gallery of Vernissages 2005 – Steuben – the bloody secret of the Baltic Sea<\/p>\r\n 2006 – Adventure Pictures (with Marcin Jamkowski) – about travel, expedition and exploration photography shown in the Town Hall in Wroc\u0142aw and in the “Improwizacja” gallery in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/p>\r\n 2008 – Sakharov Prize winners – curator of the exhibition (together with Kataryna Biernacka) – at the University of Warsaw Library<\/p>\r\n 2010 – The deepest mysteries of the planet (group exhibition The Explorers Club), opening Don Walsh<\/p>\r\n 2012 – Rescued from the Deluge (finding the treasure of King Jan Kazimierz after 350 years)<\/p>\r\n 2013-15 – Territories – an exhibition of fine art photography shown in four galleries in Warsaw (Art Pistols, Agora, Karma, Cytadela) and in the gallery at the Town Hall in Wroc\u0142aw. New territories of photography hooks into painting, printmaking and calligraphy.<\/p>\r\n 2017 – This wilderness won’t let me go – about Kampinos National Park<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Awards<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 1995 – 2nd prize in the ‘Sport’ category of the Polish Press Photo Competition for his photo essay ‘To break away from the ground’ from the International Polish Hot Air Balloon Championships.<\/p>\r\n 1995 – Special Prize of the Main Sponsor Fujifilm – Poland in the Polish Press Photo Contest for the photo essay “To break away from the earth”<\/p>\r\n 1996 – Third Prize in the European Press Photography Competition in Stockholm.<\/p>\r\n 1996 – Honorary mention in the Polish Press Photography Competition in the “Culture” category for the photo essay “Such is the end of a great name – Cistercians in Silesia”.<\/p>\r\n 2011 – Award at the Kampinos National Park competition<\/p>\r\n 2014 – First Prize at the international UNESCO World Humanitarian Award competition in China.<\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Books<\/strong><\/p>\r\n Marzena’s photographs have also appeared in books:<\/p>\r\n “Ghosts from the Abyss of the Baltic Sea<\/a>” by Marcin Jamkowski – cover and photos inside<\/p>\r\n “Rescued from the Deluge<\/a>” by Marcin Jamkowski and Hubert Kowalski – cover and dozens of photos inside<\/p>\r\n “Life is not<\/a> enough” by Iza Michalewicz – cover pic<\/p>\r\n “Tenth Anniversary of Independent Poland” – collective pr.<\/p>\r\n“in a good light”<\/em><\/h1>\r\n
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