Bio
Miro Kuzmanovic (b. 1976) lives and works between Austria and Eastern Europe. He is a self-taught documentary Photographer raised in former Yugoslavia. He took his first photographs at the age of sixteen when the escalation of the civil war and avoiding being drafted into military service forced him to immigrate to Austria.
At the center of his photographic practice, he has been working on topics related to the perception and presentation of images, focusing on truth and memory and how it shapes our sense of reality.
His first book, Signs by the Roadside, self-published in 2021, explores states of former Yugoslavia in a profoundly personal, emotive way, reflecting personal experience as questions of identity, migration, and memory dealing with recent history upon the present.
The book was nominated for the Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2022.
Part of his works are in the permanent collection of the vorarlberg museum and several private collections.
CURRICULUM VITAE
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AWARDS
Rencontres d'Arles Book Award 2022 (Finalist)
Photobook Award Encontros da Imagem - EI 2022 / Portugal (Honorable Mention)
Athens Photo Festival 2022 Photobook Exhibition (Finalist)
AI-AP | 38 American Illustration - American Photography Award
Edition365 Photography Award by 1854 and BJP
OpenWalls Arles 2021
AI-AP | 37 American Illustration - American Photography Award
MACK First book award 2020
MedPhoto Award 2019
AI-AP | 36 American Illustration - American Photography Award
AI-AP | 34 American Illustration - American Photography Award
Gazebook 3rd edition winner of the exhibition prize
Prix de la Photographie
Objektiv Pressefotopreis
PUBLICATIONS
PhotoBook Journal
British Journal of Phtography
Nearest Truth
British Journal of Phtography
Blind Magazine
Huck Magazine
The Calvert Journal
Photonews - Zeitung für Fotografie und Fotokultur
Kultur - Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft
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