Bio
Miro Kuzmanovic is a self-taught documentary Photographer raised in former Yugoslavia. He took his first photographs at the age of sixteen. The escalation of civil war and avoided being drafted into military service forced him to immigrate to Austria.
After working as a photojournalist for serval years, he returned to his homeland, where he devoted his entire work interest in issues reflecting personal experience as questions of identity, migration, memory, and history. His work is strongly influenced by his upbringing, the history of his youth, his migration, and his present culture. Overall at the center of his photographic practice is memory and how it shapes our sense of identity and reality.
Part of his works are in the permanent collection of the vorarlberg museum and of several private collections.
CURRICULUM VITAE
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AWARDS
Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2022 (Finalist)
Photobook Award Encontros da Imagem - EI 2022 / Portugal (Honorable Mention)
Athens Photo Festival 2022 Photobook Exhibition (Finalist)
AI-AP | 38 American Illustration - American Photography Award
Edition365 Photography Award by 1854 and BJP
OpenWalls Arles 2021
AI-AP | 37 American Illustration - American Photography Award
MACK First book award 2020
MedPhoto Award 2019
AI-AP | 36 American Illustration - American Photography Award
AI-AP | 34 American Illustration - American Photography Award
Gazebook 3rd edition winner of the exhibition prize
Prix de la Photographie
Objektiv Pressefotopreis
PUBLICATIONS
British Journal of Phtography
Blind Magazine
Huck Magazine
The Calvert Journal
Photonews - Zeitung für Fotografie und Fotokultur
Kultur - Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft
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