Maja Strgar Kurecic
Red in Blue (Single)
DESCRIPTION
This photo is from my recent series "Escape Landscape". With this series I wanted to capture abstract motives which are ambiguous, and don’t necessarily look ‘like’ something specific. Rather than being a result of interpretation of existing reality, the abstract motives were created from scratch. My motivation was curiosity and pure pleasure of creating images “out of nothing”, i.e. from the water, paint and other liquids that came under my hand. I used a small glass bowl, and the light of a table lamp. I used Photoshop only to transfer photos from the raw format.
Photographs from this series are very personal to me because they are my “escape landscapes” - places where I escape from everyday worries and realistic world. The work on the series was spontaneous, intuitive and often almost unconscious, so it was very liberating. Creation of these photographs was my journey into freedom, an open flow of pure ideas.
AUTHOR
Maja Strgar Kurecic is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has been involved in photography for over 25 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 50 group and 20 independent exhibitions, held in country and abroad.
Recent awards:
2020. San Francisco Bay International Photography Awards - Silver Award; All About Photo Awards 2020 - Finalist;
MIFA 2020 - Silver in Fine Art Category; 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award - Winner in the Nature Category; 6th FAPA - Fine Art Photography Awards - 3rd prize winner in Nature Category
2019. TIFA 2019 - Gold Winner in Nature Category; MIFA 2019 - Bronze in Architecture; Chromatic Awards - 2nd place - Silver medal in Abstract Category; ND Photography Awards - 1st place and Gold Star Award in Abstract Category; Minimalist Photography Awards - Abstract Photographer of the Year
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