is a fine art photographer and an Full Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She also teach photography at the New Media Design faculty at RIT Croatia (Rochester Institute of Technology). She has been involved in photography for over 30 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 60 group and 20 solo exhibitions, held in country and abroad. Her work has been acquired by collectors worldwide. She is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and CPPA (Croatian Press Photographers Association).
Bio
"I watch the world trough my camera and what I see is what I am".
Maja Strgar Kurečić
Education
2008. PhD in Engineering Sciences, field of Graphic Technology, Digital photography, University of Zagreb Faculty of Graphic Arts
2001. MSc in Information Science, Multimedia Systems, Web design, University of Zagreb Faculty of Organization and Informatics
1996. BcA in Graphic Technology, Faculty of Graphic Arts University of Zagreb