Teaching staff - Maja Đurić-Đorđević
Born on 30.11. 1966. in Cetinje.
MA in History of Art, Art Photography. The frist female art and professional photographer in Montenegro.
Graduated History of Art at the University of Belgrade.
MA received received in Prague, at the Central European University, in the class of Professor Ian Jeffry.
Scientific works, interviews, reports followed by authorial comments published in various publications boh in the country and abroad.
Participated at over 40 group and 8 one-man exhibitions in Budapest, Moscow, Kiev, Rijeka, Podgorica, Belgrade, Budva, Tivat.
She is one of the founders as well as the President of “Institut za fotografiju Crne Gore” (Institute for Montenegrin Photography), Montenegrin councillor for European Photography Guide, cooperates in the work of the photographers’ agency in "Wostokpress". Her photographs are also used in movies, musical and tourist films, marketing campaigns.
She has received numerous awards, including first awards at the international exibition “Marubi 2003” (www.marubi2003.com ).
As an art historian, she is author and a commissar of a great number of exhibitions, including renowned "Savremena crnogorska fotografija" (Modern Montenegrin Photography, which is a part of the official programme of the days of Serbian and Montenegrin culture in Berlin, 2006), project "Jedan dan u životu Crne Gore" (“One Day of Montenegrin Life”), which also, in its initial phase, included the photo-workshop that took place in six Montenegrin towns, and the photography exhibition of photography in Gallery of Modern Art, Budva.
At the moment she is engaged as a Vice-Dean at the Faculty of Visual Arts (Mediteran Unviersity) in Podgorica, where she also teaches Photography and History of Art.
ADDRESS
Budva 85310, Slovenska Obala 6,
tel/fax: 086455395
E-mail: institutfcg@cg.yu
majamima@yahoo.com
MONTENEGRO
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