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. Over more than three decades, her work has evolved from advertising and reportage photography towards personal fine art projects and experimental approaches to the medium.

Her practice is marked by transformation and abstraction, an interest in transience, memory and presence, and a subjective relationship with space and nature. Drawing on fragments of urban environments, natural phenomena and overlooked traces of everyday life, she explores the shifting boundary between the visible and the elusive, often transforming ordinary or ephemeral subjects into ambiguous, autonomous images. Her ongoing series Traces of Presence examines identity and disappearance through accidental portraits formed by fragmented faces in layers of weathered urban posters.

International recognition has also come through series such as Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes, Floating Garden and Lunaria Rediviva, which have received numerous awards and distinctions. Her photographs have been presented in more than 60 group and 20 solo exhibitions in Croatia and internationally and are held in private collections worldwide. Alongside her artistic practice, 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
BSc in Graphic Technology, Faculty of Graphic Arts University of Zagreb