Aline Dechamps
Photographer, Activist, Canon Ambassador
Dragan Stojkić
Photographer, Editor
Marijana Janković
Photographer
Boško Đorđević
Photographer, Cinematographer
Milica Mrvić
Photographer, Art Director
Jovan Čekić
Philosopher, Conceptual Artist
Ivan Marković
Director, Cinematographer, Visual Artist
Balkanium: Anđela Petrovski
Photography magazine about Balkans
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Aline Deschamps is a Thai - French photographer based in Beirut, Lebanon. She graduated from a Master of International Relations and from a Post-Diploma in Digital Media Arts. Aline uses her images to tackle geopolitical and social issues such as identity construction, migration, and exile. In her artistic and documentary visuals, she often seeks to visually translate social testimonies, and to challenge the dominant representation of her subjects through intimate and dignified visuals.
Aline's work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, It's nice that, Nowness, CNN among others. She has worked on assignments for international media outlets including The New York Times, le M magazine, Libération, De Volkskrant, Le Temps. She was also a guest speaker for the BBC, Al Jazeera, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation about documenting human trafficking.
Aline is a Canon Ambassador, and a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo.
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Dragan Stojkić, born in 1973 in Belgrade. Working as a film editor and sports documentary photographer. BA of Film and Video Editing at the Faculty of Drama Arts, Film and TV Editing Department, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He has a professional experience of 24 years working as an editor, of which 14 as a freelancer in the advertising industry. Photography is essential part of his life. The journey into sports documentary photography started from the desire to capture the moment in which the effort, the emotion, the success, the defeat, the rising again - come together. The moment in which the story reveals itself.
7 years ago he founded "Portrait of an Athlete" a sports documentary photo format. He photographs sports that take place in nature. Photographed horses and equestrian sports, professional cycling teams, long-distance swimming. Ultra trail and sky running races, half-marathons and marathons and "Highlander" hiking adventures.
Official photographer "Ironman 70.3 Pula", "100 Miles of Istria by UTMB", "Black Lake Extreme triathlon" "Ocean Lava Montenegro" "Highlander Montenegro". Finalist of the Canon "Red Line Chalenege" 2022.
Curious, loves to play and discover new things in himself and the world around him.
http://www.portraitofanathlete.com/
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Marijana Janković was born in 1994 in Ivanjica. She completed her undergraduate and master's studies at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade, at the Photography department. During her studies, she explored printmaking and artist books that influenced her photographic expression. In her artistic work, she mainly deals with conceptual photography and the extended medium of photography, with a special emphasis on the subject of self-portraits. She exhibited at three solo and a large number of collective exhibitions in the country and abroad. She is the winner of several awards in the field of printmaking.
She is also engaged in theater photography. So far, she has participated in a large number of theater projects.
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Boško Đorđević was born in 1988 in Bor. Graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš, and the Camera Department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Exhibited at solo and collective photographic and multimedia exhibitions in the country and abroad: "A Diary of Mom", together with his brother Stefan at the Cultural Center of Belgrade, "The Art of Seeing", selected by Klavdij Sluban, at the Cultural Center of Belgrade and the French Institute in Belgrade, "Body Limits" at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto and Museo Lapidario in Novigrad, the exhibition of selected works of the World Biennale of Student Photography at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina in Novi Sad and other.
He is engaged in photography and film.
https://www.boskodjordjevic.com
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Milica Mrvić is a photographer and art director. She was born in Belgrade, where she graduated in 2011 from the Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Applied Graphics, the Photography department.
She mostly works and enjoys in the domain of directed photography, designing and art directing different photographic narratives, both for personal and commissioned projects, with increasingly frequent excursions into short stop motion animated forms. As an author, she has had several solo exhibitions and has exhibited at numerous group exhibitions throughout Europe.
She worked as a member of the editorial board of the photography culture magazine ReFoto and as the editor of its online edition, and afterwards as the head of production of Wannabe Magazine and as the main organizer within Red production. She is one of the founders of the independent art organization Medvedi, which has organized the international group exhibition Medvedi - In Honor of Spring every March since 2011.
In 2018, together with Peter Flanek, she founded the studio Mitz po Flitz, which deals with creative and art direction, photography and stop motion animation. She is currently working independently and within the studio Mitz po Flitz, on the route between Serbia, Hungary and Italy.
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Jovan Čekić, Philosopher and conceptual artist. Full professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications at Singidunum University, Belgrade. Founder of the Digital Art Department.
Graduated in philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, PhD at the Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University. Since 1975, he has exhibited at numerous exhibitions in the country and abroad. Winner of the audience award at the Nadežda Petrović Memorial and the October Salon award. He was the editor for theory in Moment magazine. Until 1997, he was the director and editor-in-chief of New Moment, a magazine for visual culture. Editor of "Art Edition" in the publishing house Geopoetika. In 1998, he published the book Presecanje haosa (Geopoetics), the monograph Art Sessions: Era Milivojević (Geopoetics, 2001) and Shifting horizons (FMK 2015), The emergence of post-human capitalism (Arkzin Zagreb 2019). He was the artistic director and selector of BELEF and the artistic director of Time Codes, the Youth Biennale in Vršac. He taught as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade and at the Fine Arts Academy in Cetinje.
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Ivan Marković, director, cinematographer and visual artist born in 1989 in Belgrade. Graduated in camera studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 2012, and in 2019 completed his master's studies in directing at the University of the Arts in Berlin. For his photography and video works, he won the Erste Foundation Award for Best Visual Artist in 2014. He participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2015. Over the past few years, he worked as a director of photography on several feature films, including "Landscapes of Resistance" by Marta Popivoda, "You have the Night" by Ivan Salatić and "I was at home, but…" by Angela Šanelek, which won the Silver Bear - Berlinale 2019.
His experimental documentary film "Center" was premiered at the DocLisboa festival in 2018. It won the award for Best Serbian Documentary at the Beldocs 2019 festival and the "Best Balkan Newcomer" award at Dokufest. The film was screened at numerous international festivals and exhibitions.
Together with Linfeng Wu, he directed the short film "White Bird", which premiered at Berlinale 2016, and the feature film "From Tomorrow on, I Will", premiered at Berlinale 2019 in the Forum section. The film has won several awards, including the Grand Prix of the Jeonju Film Festival in South Korea and the FIRST STEPS Award of the German Film Academy. Independently or as part of group exhibitions, he exhibited photographs and video works at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (ICA), the Austrian Kulturforum, the Bethanien gallery in Berlin. Since 2020, a member of the European Film Academy (EFA).
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Balkanium is a blog whose goal is to meet and bring together people from different countries of the Balkans.
It was conceived as a magazine where photographers from every country in the Balkans will share stories and examples from their country and thus introduce the rest, surprise or remind them of the country in question, learn something new or realize how similar we are. The stories contain certain messages, they will subtly prove that differences are not important and that there are good people everywhere, as well as that any change in difficult circumstances starts from oneself. By difficult circumstances here, I mean the social circumstances of the majority of the people of the Balkans, who more or less all have similar problems: unemployment, resentment, bad conditions, but they also have prejudices, are closed and disconnected. Of course, the opposite of the above will hardly ever happen, but from my own important personal experience and many things that I have already mentioned, I realized that it is possible to always take steps that, perhaps in the long term, will lead to those changes.
Anđela Petrovski was born in Belgrade, 1991., where she completed high school for design and bachelor and master studies in documentary photography at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. In addition to her profession as a photographer, she finds herself in writing and research, and with the Balkanium project, she managed to combine all her interests in one place.