1st place
gold star award
Maja Strgar Kurecic
croatia
title
States of Mind
Maja Strgar Kurecic is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has been involved in photography for over 25 years. At the beginning of her career, Maja engaged mostly in advertising and reportage photography. The last few years she devoted to projects that fall within the field of abstract photography. She earned international recognition for her recent projects Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes and Floating Garden that won many international awards. She exhibited photographs on over 50 group and 20 independent exhibitions, held in country and abroad. She is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and CPPA (Croatian Press Photographers Association).
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entry description
Passion. Creation. Meditation. Realization. Peace. This words describe the feelings I have when I create my photographs. The work on States of Mind series was spontaneous, intuitive and often almost unconscious, so it was very liberating. My motivation was curiosity and pure pleasure of creating images "out of nothing", i.e. from the water, paint and other liquids that came under my hand. I used a small glass bowl, and a natural light from the window and the light of a table lamp. I used Photoshop only to transfer photos from the raw format.about the photographer
Maja Strgar Kurecic is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has been involved in photography for over 25 years. At the beginning of her career, Maja engaged mostly in advertising and reportage photography. The last few years she devoted to projects that fall within the field of abstract photography. She earned international recognition for her recent projects Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes and Floating Garden that won many international awards. She exhibited photographs on over 50 group and 20 independent exhibitions, held in country and abroad. She is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and CPPA (Croatian Press Photographers Association).
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