Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos required ongoing support, tech responsibility takeover, site efficiency boost, as well as adding several small marketing features, like a landing page and newsletters.

Magnum Learn, a platform for purchasing and watching photography e-learning courses, needed thorough development and implementation.

Magnum Shop, a shopping platform with albums, photos, books, and posters, needed to be developed, implemented, and tied with other systems used currently by our Client – prints, distribution and a photo bank.

Magnum Creative is a service that aggregates and demonstrates Magnum Photographers’ cooperation with particular brands, presenting their individual portfolios.

1. A typical reportage service with articles, galleries, and special offer announcements
2. We’ve made an intuitive and user-friendly navigation system, allowing visitors to effortlessly browse through their vast collection of iconic photographs and stories.
3. To help users find specific photographs or topics of interest, a powerful search and filtering system has been integrated. Users can search for images based on photographers, themes, locations, and more, enabling a tailored experience.

1. SSO central users management system – single login and password work seamlessly on every service a user can log into, and the process is automatic under different domains
2. Creating a full educational path with descriptions, downloadable materials, and embedded video lessons
3. Integration with Vimeo
4. Tracking the progress of viewed materials

1. A complex material sorting filter
2. Integration of a tool for choosing and downloading photos from the Magnum photo bank along with meta descriptions. Photos are in the format and size applicable only for presentation. Original pictures aren’t stored locally.
3. Photo loading optimization

1. A platform with an e-commerce system based on joining WordPress with Magento and external microservices
2. Product variants presentation and a user profile implemented with WordPress
3. Order finalization, realization, shipment, payments, prices and special offers are implemented through a separate subsystem in the internal net by the Magento e-commerce platform
4. Importing all products to WordPress from a separate microservice (product service)

Our technological team consisted of 4 independent suppliers: Fooz, the one responsible for Magento, one for AWS, and one for integrations.

Main challenges included:
Integration with microservices such as Image Service, User Service, and Fulfillment Service, all based on Symphony, also integration with AWS and the deployment system based on Docker and SSO

All systems are automatically deployed on the AWS server with a separate bank of static photos. AWS ensures service scalability – it creates and applies additional service instances depending on the load, sustaining integrity of data generated by users.
We worked on Docker images, server configuration, and user authentication through external platforms, ensuring seamless integration and scalability.

The challenge here was integrating one global basket available from every service. A user could add an item to the basket whilst being on the Shop site, move to the Learn platform, add a chosen course to the same basket, and complete the transaction with one payment.

The basket is operated by the Magento system, but data presentation (photo and description) is uploaded and stored while adding a product to the basket. Each product’s description can present its full story and functionalities even if the section has been worked out in other services, e.g. integration with the photo bank and optimized photo gallery presentation.

The first challenge was creating an e-learning platform. We’ve chosen the most adequate service for video hosting and sharing. The next task was stapling particular courses to the e-commerce system, which abreast controls (grants and revokes) the access to the materials. Apart from that, the e-learning system monitors users’ course progress so they are able to continue the training from the place they previously stopped.

Typical store information like price, special offers, and discounts are implemented live through the integration with the main sales tool based on Magento. One of the companies we worked closely with took responsibility for its realization and implementation. WordPress, on the other hand, played a part in an engine/supply base for the frontend. It created a space to manage products, their visibility, descriptions, photos, etc. At the same time, prices and stock levels were imported live by WordPress from external services.

Our team was responsible for the whole process of ongoing support over all the WordPress services used as part of the Magnum Photos infrastructure. We participated in the marketing campaigns on an ongoing basis, helping the Magnum team in creating landing pages, newsletters, mailings, dedicated subpages, product sets, promotional campaigns for new courses, etc.

It was a challenge to create a tool for browsing and downloading chosen photos to use them in the entries. Photos had to be compressed and cropped locally on the server and only then added to a publicly available library. Admins are able to search for the photos by a given name, author and keywords.

Additionally, we had to prepare adequate hooks in WordPress which allow downloading photo descriptions and licenses. Then, we entered them into a meta_description of the processed photo.