JURY
Meet LES BALKANNES' jury for the second edition.
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Gratuated from the beaux Arts de Paris, Andréa Vamos develops an artistic approach between drawing, photography and installation. Her work revolves around two axes of the notion of image: the image as a territory of memory and the image as a projection of the world. Standing on the fringes of the classification phenomena of contemporary photography, she creates wild installations that she cites as experiences of spaces scarcely exploited by human activity. The images created from these visual art forms are the representation of her work on the image and can be exhibited in the form of albums, prints and three-dimensional works.
Graduated in art history (Ecole du Louvre, Sorbonne-Pantheon, Master's Degree in documentary photography on Mary Ellen Mark), Mariana Kostandini @anamari.ko, has a passion for minimalist photography, especially of architecture, yet with a poetic approach. She observes the city and its metamorphoses with the aim of capturing and preserving the memory of public space as a precious data, in an approach that is more critical than contemplative. She also participates on artistic projects as a curator (From Their Hands - Museum On/Off Center Pompidou Paris 2016, Archive of Voices with Maks Velo, 2019), including those of her parisian artistic association Projektor @projektorart, which aims to promote young artists in unusual and informal places.
Milomir Kovačević is a photographer from Bosnia and Herzegovina. At the beginning of his career, he focused mainly on capturing images of Sarajevo's urban and cultural life, whether in prisons, at the Međugorje pilgrimage, or with fans of the Sarajevo Football Club. In the early 1990s, his work reflects the profound changes taking place in Yugoslav society. He is in the middle of the tragic war that will make Sarajevo world-famous. During that time, he tirelessly photographs the city and its inhabitants, the tragedy, the absurdity, the hope. Settled in Paris since 1995, Milomir was made Knight of the National Order of Merit for his work and commitment by President Chirac in 2007.