Marcin Leszczynski Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Worldwide, Based In London

Passionate, creative, and result-oriented editorial and commercial photographer and videographer with a highly acclaimed reputation for producing superior, high-quality imagery.• Excellent technical skills – in digital and analogue SLRs and studio lighting including continuous (Briese, Arri KinoFlo) and strobe (Profoto, Broncolor, Elinchrom, Bowens).• Excellent in on-location and in-studio shoots (models, still life).• Various clients - e-commerce and commercial (lookbooks, campaigns) photos and videos for Amazon, Boden, MCQ, Creative Drive, Miss Selfridge, ECCO, Burton, FatFace, Fenwick, Harrods, John Lewis, I Hearts, House of Holland, Mint Velvet and many others.• Editorials and videos for i.e. Vogue, L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, ELLE, and Nylon among independent magazines like Schön!, Funny Tastes, Jungle, Red Milk, Unpolished and others.• Expert in Capture One, Adobe CC photo and video editing, retouching, and image manipulation.• Experience storing data, and uploading photographs and videos into company databases and archives using various tools like RMP, View, CreativeForce/Kelvin, Flo and others.• Experienced in production, also for high-profile magazines and clients, e.g. Vogue, ELLE, L'Officiel, Harper's Bazaar, Reebok.• Quick to learn new techniques and routines.• Excellent interpersonal, and communication skills.• Works well within a team – top models, internationally recognized stylists, hairstylists, make-up artists.

In 2012 I've started to develop my commercial career as an assistant of famous Polish and international fashion photographers as Agata Pospieszyńska, John Akehurst, Elisabeth Hoff.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

2 global online video campaigns.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Research accomplishments including innovative writing success and refreshing articles. - Successful building great relations with all of the most important Polish theatres (institutional and alternative).- Enduring relationships with artists, actors and actresses for interviews widely admired performing by readers and professionals.- Photoediting and obtaining new visual content.

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Building deep cooperation with influential Polish media. - Building synergy of media, campaign and activism activity.- Organizing and coordination of photo shoots.- Creation, editing and coordination of AI’s on-line magazine concerning human rights in culture.- Publications coordinator, e.g. Annual Report.- Acquisition of new communication channels; fitting content to channels.- Adaptation of communication to changing media reality; encouraged AI office to use new tools (Storify, Thinglink, Prezi, etc.) and blogs, as well as on-line magazines; highlighting risks in new media for human rights work.- Managing AI’s image; organising workshops about dress-code, new media, spokespersons.- Organising and performing press conferences, meetings and debates with journalists and artists.- Organising urgent, large-scale assemblies.- Working with the official web page, blog, social media accounts; connecting high quality articles with the diffusion of interesting audio-visual content. - Excellent record of work organisation with campaign and activism coordinators despite multi-tasking expectations.- Interaction with activists: informing them about media plans, animating media workshops and creating web-activism rules.- Performing valued lectures for children and leading media workshops for activists.

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- DTP; developing the graphic identity of projects, connecting brilliant design with human rights issues.- Co-creating the scripts for advertisements and films for the Letter Writing Marathon campaign.

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Member of the team working on the concept of the first issue of a new lifestyle magazine. Researching, photo-editing.

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Developing the concept, structure and perspective of a magazine commenting on theatre problematics with an anthropological background.- My broad spectrum of interests enabled me to connect the ideas of the most important contemporary humanist philosophers (Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak) in a mission to popularise ideas and comment with skill and knowledge on theatre events.- Communicating with authors, obtaining the licences and rights for publication.- Editing and proof-reading, translating articles and interviewing; effective management of the other editors, graphic designers and translators.- Photo editing.- Gaining nation-wide coverage.- Within low budget obtaining high quality, influential magazine.

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Successfully created a small publishing house: fulfilling legal requirements, obtaining nation-wide distribution channels, editing and proofreading of books and the coordination of the publication process. - Organizing and coordinating photo shoots, photo editing.- Research for theatre texts; gaining interesting sources and inspirations for directors and playwrights.- Gaining the licences and rights for performance; encouraging the theatre to use Creative Commons.- Coordinating translation and/or playwriting.- Typesetting and small graphics.- Organising theatre events connected with global development and human rights issues (e.g. ODA Club of Polish Humanitarian Action, Amnesty International's Letter Writing Marathon 2009–2011).- Organising and coordinating high profile meetings, debates and exhibitions (e.g. visit of Herta Müller in Poland).- Administration of the websites.

Warszawa, Woj. Mazowieckie, Polska

- Interviewing many important figures for Polish humanities research community.- Managing editor of an issue focusing on the anthropological context of word „(op.cit.,)” no. 36 3/2007).- Co-designing and typesetting.- Photo shooting.

Master'S Degree, Cultural Studies, A

Activities and Societies: "(op.cit., )" - editor of magazine focusing on social and cultural issues, editor of VIP column; scientific.

Master'S Degree, Kulturoznawstwo

Various scope of experience and techniques from the Large Format up to Pinhole Photography; and different topics such as a portrait.