stanko abadzic
STANKO ABADŽIĆ (1952) is a photojournalist who has an unbelievably wide range of genre and theme within his work. Undoubtedly, this is because after his amateur beginnings, he achieved professional maturity working with the press. There photography was already concerned with not just what the authorities liked, but with serious, purposeful and, at the end of the day, dependable work. A photojournalist working for the press usually does not usually have much extra time on his hands. His black and white photography can be recognized at first sight. It has an essential spark of purity, as well as technical precision, visual refinement, and interesting contents. However, these qualities are not of lesser importance than what can be distinguished as the author’s unique signature: distinctive vision and the added interest of his craft manlike skill. His are works whose very attractiveness usually directly addresses the viewer. A native of Vukovar, Croatia, he had already dedicated himself to photography by the age of fifteen. His early efforts were connected with the Borovo photography club. There he took part in members’ exhibitions, and the club also arranged his first solo exhibitions. He completed his studies in German, and worked as a correspondent for the Croatian newspaper Vjesnik. Since 1995 he has been living and working as a photographer in Prague, which has remained his second love. He dedicates himself to his new home as generously as to the Adriatic coast, where has not ceased to return for visits. An exhibition, which he opened in the year 2000 in the chamber galleries of the photographic home of Josef Sudek, was the best proof of this. However, this was not the first time Abadžic had exhibited in Prague. He participated in the exhibition Art Against Racism, which was arranged in 1998 by the Humanist movement in the exhibition hall Mánes. About one year later he took part in a similar exhibit in the gallery in the Rock Cafe club. He has put on smaller exhibitions at the Jazz Club Železná and in the Literary Cafe on Týnská street he even launched a solo exhibition. With an exhibition in the (Mirror of Life showing) in (the chamber galleries of the photographic home of Josef Sudek) supported by The Republic of Croatia’s embassy in Prague, he introduced his most complex work yet. In 1999 Stanko Abadžic participated in the 1st Photographic Biennial on the island of Krk in Croatia. At the beginning of 2001, he received a prize at the well-attended annual Prague photographic exhibit and competition where he also displayed his Prague motifs.