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Borislav Milovanovic

Borislav Milovanovic, by profession BSc in Mechanical Engineering. He started working in photography in 1977. So far, he has participated in over 500 collective exhibitions and won over 400 awards. He held five solo exhibitions, in Bor, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Lechang city China and Aknara, Turkey.

He was on the list of the 10 most successful authors in the Photo Association of Serbia for 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020.

In cooperation with the National Library in Bor, he formed an Exhibition Center within the National Library, where many collective exhibitions of photo clubs Danube and Balkans have been held so far, as well as solo exhibitions. He has judged over 200 exhibitions around the world. He is the founder and President of DIPA.

Samir Zahirović

Samir Zahirović was born in 1968 in Tuzla, where he still lives and works. He is a member of the Photographic Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AUFBiH), Photo-Cinema Club Tuzla and Art Group Lucido from Lukavac. He showed his work in more than 300 joint exhibitions around the world, on all six continents.

He discovered his love for photography at the age of 12, and at the beginning of his career he mostly worked in the field of photojournalism and war photography. In 1995 in Aachen, as a result of this work, he organised his first solo exhibition “Tuzla — Eine Stadt in Europa”. His second exhibition “Faces of Shiraz” was shown in 2017, soon followed by “Portraits” and “The Gazes”. He held his fifth exhibition, “Retrospective”, in Ljubljana at the Šolt Gallery in January 2019, and his sixth, “Colorful Cuba in Black and White”, in August 2021 in Lukavac.

He was awarded more than 250 different awards, honours and recognitions for his art work: 51 gold, 20 silver, 23 bronze medals and 180 honourable mentions at FIAP exhibitions. At national FOTOBiH exhibitions he was first place winner ten times. In 2020 he was granted the distinction EFIAP/b by the International Federation of Photographic Art, and in 2018 the Photographic Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina granted him the honorary title Candidate for Master of Photography as well as the title Instructor of Photography.

For three years in a row he has been the most successful photographer in Bosnia and Herzegovina at international exhibitions. His artistic expression covers many topics, genres and techniques, but he mainly focuses on portraits and architecture. In recent years he has specialised in 360° panoramic photography, and became the first Google Trusted Photographer in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Dejan Angelovski

Dejan Angelovski (born 1983, Kumanovo, North Macedonia) has been active in the field of photography since 1996. In 1997 he received a diploma at the Days of Macedonian Photography event held in Strumica. His work has been featured in over 50 exhibitions — international, national, club and solo — and he has received numerous awards and recognitions.

From 2005 to 2014 he served as Secretary of Photo Cinema Club Kozjak in Kumanovo, and from 2014 to 2022 he held the position of its President. He is a member of the Photo Association of Macedonia (FSM), where he holds the title Photographer First Class (F1 FSM), and he has been awarded the Artist FIAP (AFIAP) distinction by the International Federation of Photographic Art.

Currently he leads Photo Club MOTUS and is a member of the executive committee of the Association for Promotion of Intellectual, Multicultural and Sports Values — MOTUS in Kumanovo.