Who are the members of the jury that will decide on the finalists and winners of the 4th international photography festival Organ Vida?

Filip Horvat, Jeff Jacobson, Saša Kralj, Matt Lutton, and Barbara Šarić will be selecting the works for the exhibition as well as the winners of the 4th international Organ Vida festival (held this year for the first time at Cinema Europa and Karas Gallery on June 15th and 16th).

Considering the broad range of ways in which photography can be used as a tool for documenting social, political and daily life events as well as human behavior, this year's international photography festival Organ Vida looks forward to presenting a wide selection of works from the field of documentary photography understood in its broadest sense. The call for photography submissions is open from March 5th till May 1st.

All photographers from Croatia as well as abroad are welcome to apply, provided that they are over 18th years of age. In order to be eligible for this open call, the documentary photography series must consist of a minimum of three (3) and a maximum of twenty (20) photographs. The documentary series must be accompanied by an adequate description.

The results will be published on May 20th on the Organ Vida website.

The finalists and the winners will be selected by a professional international jury consisting of five members: Filip Horvat, Jeff Jacobson, Saša Kralj, Matt Lutton, and Barbara Šarić.

Jeff Jacobson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1946. He has published two books, My Fellow Americans, University of New Mexico Press, in 1991, and Melting Point, Nazraeli Press, in 2006. Jacobson joined Magnum Photos in 1978. He later left Magnum to help found Archive Pictures.

Jacobson's photographs are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Fine Art, George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, The Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Az., The Joy of Giving Society in New York, and have been exhibited at The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The International Center of Photography, New York, The Jewish Museum, New York, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, The Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Jeff teaches workshops yearly at the International Center of Photography, in New York, and has also taught at The Tuscany Photo Workshop, The Anderson Ranch, Center For Photography at Woodstock, the Julia Dean Photo Workshop, in Los Angeles, and Centro de la Imagen, in Mexico City. He has won grants from the National Endowment For The Arts, and The New York Foundation For The Arts. He has worked as a photojournalist for major magazines around the world.

Matt Lutton is an American photographer currently residing in Belgrade. He studied at the University of Washington University, at the Department for Comparative History of Ideas, and the Centre for Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies. He has done photographic work for various publications, from the New York Timesa to The Fader. He has held three solo exhibitions in his hometown of Seattle thus far, and he is also writing a photography blog called Dvafoto.

Saša Kralj is a photojournalist with over 30 years of work experienceje fotoreporter s preko 30 godina radnog iskustva. He was born in 1965, and he is currently living in Zagreb. He has worked in Kurdistan (Iraq), Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. He has taught photojournalism at the 'Shantou University's Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication' in China, 'Federation of European Journalism Students' in Zagreb, Panna Photo workshops in Jakarta, and at South Asian Institute for Photography "Visual Anthropology", Patshala, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has worked for Jiwafoto agency, World Press Photo, Associated Press, New York Times, Boston Herald, Sudswenska Dagbladett, Reuters, AFP, Business Week, The Guardian, Gotteborg Posten, photo agency Afrika Photos & Features and Images agency. His works have been published in various South African publications (Leadership magazine, Flying Springbock, Living Africa). In 2004, he published a book on the urban culture of the capital of Thailand, 'Bangkok Inside Out'.

 Barbara Šarić is a Croatian photographer currently living in Zagreb. After graduating from the studies of philosophy and anthropology, she returned to her first love – photography. In 2010, she graduated from the studies of Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the ICP. Her work has been published in New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Jutarnji list, Globus, Slobodna Dalmacija, and Zarez. Barbara is a member of the Organ Vida photography association and an artistic consultant of the international photography festival.

Filip Horvat is a Croatian photojournalist with 20 years of experience in covering news stories from Eastern Europe and the Balkan region. He lives in Zagreb, but travels frequently in the region due to numerous assignments by the leading international magazines.

Filip Horvat has documented many great historic moments, from the je zabilježio velike povijesne momente, from the unrest in Poland, the revolutions in Czechoslovakia and Romania, the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the wars in former Yugoslavia, economic recovery of the region, human trafficking, search for the missing persons, as well as natural disasters like earthquakes and floods.