Bio
Miro Kuzmanovic (b. 1976) lives and works between Austria and Eastern Europe. He is a self-taught documentary Photographer raised in former Yugoslavia. He took his first photographs at the age of sixteen when the escalation of the civil war and avoiding being drafted into military service forced him to immigrate to Austria.
At the center of his photographic practice, he has been working on topics related to the perception and presentation of images, focusing on truth and memory and how it shapes our sense of reality.
His first book, Signs by the Roadside, self-published in 2021, explores states of former Yugoslavia in a profoundly personal, emotive way, reflecting personal experience as questions of identity, migration, and memory dealing with recent history upon the present.
The book was nominated for the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2022.
Part of his works are in the permanent collection of the vorarlberg museum and several private collections.
CURRICULUM VITAE
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AWARDS & HONORS/GRANTS
German Photobook Award - Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 23/24
Vorarlberger Kreativpreis 2023 - Fotografie Freie Arbeit
Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2022 (Finalist)
AI-AP | 39 American Illustration - American Photography Award
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
BOOK PUBLICATIONS
Ulysses, The Art of Arriving, 2022
Signs by the Roadside, 2021
Departure (Dummie), 2020
Devotional Pictures (Dummie), 2019
INTERVIEWS & FEATURES
PhotoBook Journal
British Journal of Phtography
Nearest Truth
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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OTHER COLLABORATIONS
2022-ongoing
Participation as an artist in the “Flucht- und Zufluchtsorte von Wehrmachtsdeserteuren” at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Peter Pirker, Universität Innsbruck (A)
2021-2022
Participation as an artist in the transdisciplinary study "The Art of Arriving (Reframing Refugee Integration)", in collaboration with two other photographers (Linda Zahra, Christina Werner) and under the supervision of three sociologists: Michael Parzer, Ana Mijic and Lisa Bock, Institute of Sociology-University of Vienna (A)