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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.

The 4th international photography festival Organ Vida announces its juried open call for documentary photography

Submissions are accepted from March 5th till May 1st , 2012.

The 4th international photography festival Organ Vida will be held at a new location this year – in the cinema 'Europa' in the centre of Zagreb, while the exhibition will be held in an art gallery. The festival will last for two days, 15th and 16th of June, 2012.

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 open call will run from March 5th till May 1st 2012. The list of works selected for the exhibition will be published May 20th at the festival website.

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 series must be accompanied by a short description. All photographers over 18, from Croatia and abroad, are welcome to apply.

The selected works will be displayed at a gallery space during the festival The finalists and the award winners will be selected by an international jury of 5 professional photographers. The names of the members of the jury will be published soon at the festival website.

You can find full list of submission rules HERE.

The winner of the first prize will receive an award and an acknowledgement of the Organ Vida festival.

Beside the new locations (cinema Europa and an art gallery), the Organ Vida festival has a new visual identity as well – thanks to the multidisciplinary creative studio Stožer. The new visual identity is designed to separate the Organ Vida association from the international photography festival of the same name, and thus facilitate the communication and promotion of the festival (which is held annually in Zagreb since 2009).

You can read more about how the new visual identity was created here.

Međunarodni festival fotografije Organ Vida zahvaljujući kreativnom studiju Stožer ima novi vizualni identitet!

Multidisciplinarni kreativni studio Stožer međunarodnom festivalu fotografije Organ Vida podario je novi vizualni identitet. Novim je vizualnim rješenjem kreativni studio odvojio istoimenu udrugu od međunarodnog festivala te je na taj način omogućio uspostavljanje lakše komunikacije samog festivala.

- Htjeli smo vizualno stvoriti zaseban brand te otkloniti eventualne nejasnoće oko djelovanja udruge u njihovim drugim projektima i oko samog festivala. Također smo nastojali postaviti vizualni standard festivala koji komunicira sam za sebe prema dijelu populacije koji možda nije direktno vezan za samo djelovanje udruge, a želi se uključiti ili sudjelovati na festivalu te s vremenom otkriti afinitete prema fotografskom djelovanju.

U kreiranju novog vizualnog identiteta Stožer je krenuo iz dva segmenta: samog logotipa festivala i pozadine, odnosno layouta.

- Za polazište logotipa uzeli smo tipografiju i sistem funkcioniranja već postojećeg rješenja. Orijentirali smo se na nekoliko važnih elemenata koji nisu bili dovoljno istaknuti u prijašnjim verzijama. Tu prvenstveno mislimo na redni broj festivala te informaciju da se radi o međunarodnom festivalu.

Dodani i istaknuti redni broj međunarodnog festivala fotografije potreban je zbog komunikacije tradicije festivala. Budući da ove godine Organ Vida slavi 4. rođendan, brojka je zamišljena kao jedini varijabilni element logotipa u dizajnerskom smislu, što znači da će se brojka iz godine u godinu stilizirati prema temi festivala.

- U konkretnom slučaju ovogodišnjeg festivala išli smo na čistu i minimalističku varijantu broja četiri u plavoj boji kao ilustraciju ovogodišnje teme. Logotip je rađen i u jednobojnoj varijanti na 4 kvadrata u različitim bojama koji služe kao vizualna osnovica komuniciranja različitih grupa tema ili sadržaja pri kreiranju komunikacijskih sredstava.

Za temelj pozadine korištene su fotografije autora koji su sudjelovali na dosadašnjim festivalima.

- Tim smo potezom željeli dati dodatni prostor promoviranja rada mladih autora. Također smo svjesno izbjegli korištenje generičkih stock fotografija. Fotografijom u layoutu željeli smo direktno istaknuti i osnovni smjer festivala.

Cijeli vizualni identitet međunarodnog festivala fotografije Organ Vida rađen je u umjerenoj i minimalističkoj maniri direktno i neposredno komunicirajući glavne informacije i smjer djelovanja festivala.

Kako vam se sviđa novi vizualni identitet?

The rich program of the 3rd annual international photography festival Organ Vida

Acoustic concert of the young Croatian singer/songwriter Luka Belani and the group exhibition of professional and amateur photographers scheduled for the opening night

The international photography festival, Organ Vida, will take place from May 19th through 21st, at SC – Student Centre, Zagreb.

The 3rd annual photography festival will start on Thursday, 19th of May at 8 PM with an acoustic concert by young singer/songwriter Luka Belani, and the opening of the group exhibition of professional and amateur photographers on the subject of 'The People'. The exhibition consists of works by 33 authors from five countries – Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia and USA.

Organ Vida festival will be held in two locations: in the quarters of the association of photographers 'Omnibus' (workshops held by Siniša Uštulica, Igor Šeler, Jadranko Begić Stripy, as well as renown Croatian photographer Tomislav Dolenec, all on May 19th) and at SC – Student Centre Zagreb.

On the second day, May 20th, the festival will feature lectures by renown professionals: Želimir Koščević - art historian and ethnologist, Stanko Herceg and Mijo Vesović – professional cinematographers, and a presentation by Kadar36 colective.

Scheduled for the third day, May 21st, are the lectures by Vedran Gulin – creative director of the 'Proximity' production company, young Croatian photographer Martina Kenji, professional cinematographer Ana Opalić, as well as Marjan Radović – expert in underwater photography.

At the final evening of the festival, the awards will be presented to the authors of the best photos from the exhibition, followed by a party at Teatar &TD with DJ Mayo.

This year, 307 authors from thirty different countries have applied with the total of 1275 photos – and our jury has selected 33 authors from five countries: Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia and USA.

The entrance to the festival, as well as participation in all the workshops, lectures, and side programs are free.

The list of authors selected for the exhibition:

1.Lana Mujičić (Croatia)

2. Bruna Tomšić (Croatia)

3. Dragoslav Dragičević (Croatia)

4. Ivan Pavliš (Croatia)

5. Martina Kenji (Croatia)

6. Kristijan Tabet (Croatia)

7. Ivan Mijić (Croatia)

8. Darija Turina (Croatia)

9. Boris Štromar (Croatia)

10. Vedran Rosandić (Slovenia/Croatia)

11. Damir Ivanković (Croatia)

12. Luka Kosic (Croatia)

13. Igor Marinović (Serbia)

14. Ivana Hengl (Croatia)

15. Inia Herenčić (Croatia)

16. Tjaša Kalkan (Croatia)

17. Milica Dukić (Serbia)

18. Goran Stamenković (Srbija)

19. Vesna Špoljar (Croatia)

20. Morena Kvaternik (Croatia)

21. Max Juhasz (Croatia)

22. Stijepo Brbora (Croatia)

23. Vedran Marketić (Croatia)

24. Ivana Marinić Kragić (Croatia)

25. Srđan Kovačević (Croatia)

26. Damjan Dević (Croatia)

27. Gordan Jarić (Serbia)

28. Mario Leko (Croatia)

29. Ivica Drusany (Croatia)

30. Aleksandra Perovic (Serbia)

31. Matija Brumen (Slovenia)

32. Małgorzata Goliszewska (Poland)

33. Jared Kuzia (USA)