Jerzy Kośnik is a Polish photographer known for his photojournalist work on film festivals all over the world. He photographed the most famous actors and film-makers.
Since 1977 he had been accredited with the Polish journal "Film", but he was fired in 1981 after his photos from Cannes Film Festival, which clearly showed his sympathies for the Solidarity movement. His pictures of famous movie stars wearing Solidarity badge (especially the one with Jack Nicholson) very quickly reached common recognition. During martial law he cooperated with French press agency Gamma Press Image, for which he provided first-hand images of Poland under turbulence and terror. His photos were used for the Solidarity political campaign during first semi-free elections in Poland in 1989.
Photographs by Jerzy Kośnik may be seen in European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, where they tell the story of world support for democratic changes in Poland.
Erëmirë Krasniqi is a young scholar from Pristina who graduated from Bard College Berlin in Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Literature, and earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, she worked as a teaching assistant for several courses (Transnational Muslim Feminisms, Krieger’s Virtual Girlfriend: Japanese Anime and the Idea of Post-human, Introduction to Film Studies and Film Noir), and as a research assistant for The Media Ecology Project, a digital resource that introduced new forms of scholarly production in order to further support and advocate the essential service performed by media archives. Erëmirë is a founder of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative, and collector of the interviews in the Women’s Activism in Kosovo collection.
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Bregu i Diellit, Prishtinë
Radoslav Kratina was a Czech sculptor, graphic designer, industrial designer, photographer and painter, a representative of Czech neo-constructivism. He studied arts and crafts in Brno and worked as a textile designer. In the 1950s, he graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and then worked as an industrial textile designer and toy designer. From 1962 he focused on his own fine art and his works were exhibited in the 1960s as part of group exhibitions. In 1967 he co-founded the “Concretists’ Club”, which originally brought together mainly Czech and Slovak (neo) constructivist artists. After the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 many members of the Concretists’ Club emigrated and the club ceased its activities in 1971. Radoslav Kratina, who stayed in Czechoslovakia, could not exhibit his work until 1989. His work was characteristically inspired by movement and colour – he created free-standing constructions and hanging relief structures made from simple colourful moving geometric bodies.
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Aniza Kraus has been the curator of the Ukrainian Museum-Archives since 2007. She was the UMA’s first professional curator, working previously as a digitization and preservation specialist at Case Western Reserve University. She has been instrumental in organizing existing materials and managing new acquisitions, which come regularly from the surrounding Ukrainian community. She has attracted funds for various projects, like the grant received from the Ohio Humanities Council to publish a volume about the Hnatiuk textile collection.
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Cleveland Kenilworth Avenue 1202, United States of America 44113
Bronius Krivickas (1919–1952) graduated Biržai gymnasium in 1938, and began his studies at Vytautas Magnus University, later - Vilnius University. He was a member of literary organisations and networks, such as ‘Šatrijos meno kuopa’, led by the famous Lithuanian writer Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas. Krivickas was the editor of the journal Ateitis (Future) in 1938–1939, and later the editor of the newspaper Studentų dienos (Student Days). From 1944, he worked in the editorial offices of the journal Kūryba (Creative Work), and as a teacher at Biržai gymnasium. In 1945, he joined the anti-Soviet partisan movement. He became the editor of partisan newspapers such as Aukštaičių kova (The Struggle of the Aukštaičiai) and Partizanų kova (The Partisan Struggle). Krivickas was killed in 1952, during an operation by the Soviet state security service.
