Recording from the webinar „Images That Speak: Iconic WWII Photography and the Art of Visual Storytelling” from the 07 October 2025.
This session explores how photography captures and shapes collective memory through powerful images from the Second World War. Designed for teachers and educators, it shows how students can use photography to tell meaningful historical stories and build visual narratives that connect past and present.
The webinar also introduces a student photography contest and demonstrates ways to involve classrooms in preparing for it. Participants gain access to ready-to-use educational materials that support history, art, and media literacy lessons.
Speaker: Jan Prosiński, cinematographer, director, and photographer, graduate of the National Film School in Łódź. He has created numerous documentary projects and over a thousand interviews for the Warsaw Rising Museum. His photographic work focuses on portraits and landscapes, inspired by his passion for art history and nature.
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Public task financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland within the grant competition "Public Diplomacy 2024-2025 - the European dimension and countering disinformation".