Bio

“I watch the world through my camera and what I see is what I am.”

Maja Strgar Kurečić

is a Croatian fine art photographer and Full Professor at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Graphic Arts. Her photographic practice spans more than three decades, evolving from advertising and reportage photography towards personal fine art projects.
Her recent work explores perception, memory, transience and transformation. Through abstraction, fragments of urban space, natural phenomena and overlooked traces of everyday life, she examines the shifting boundaries between the visible and the elusive, representation and abstraction, presence and disappearance.
Her projects Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes and Floating Garden have received numerous international awards and recognitions. Her work has been exhibited in more than 60 group and 20 solo exhibitions in Croatia and internationally and is held in private collections worldwide. She teaches photography at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Graphic Arts and at RIT Croatia.
Education
2007. 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