Stanko Abadžić
Stanko Abadžić was born in Vukovar in 1952. When he was 15, his father gave him his first camera, a Smena 8. He became a member of the Borovo Photo Club, which organized his first joint and solo exhibitions in Vukovar and Borovo.
He received his degree in German language and literature. After graduation he worked as a correspondent for Vjesnik and wrote travelogues from Tunisia, Malta, Turkey, and other countries. From 1995 to 2002, he lived in the Czech Republic and worked as a freelance photographer. During that period, he had a number of joint and solo exhibitions. The largest one was organized in Prague, in the Josef Sudek Gallery, named after the famous Czech photographer. With the help of the Croatian Embassy in Prague, he published his first book of photographs, In the Mirror of Life.
Abadžić's next book, In Absentia, along with an exhibition with the same title in the Mimara Museum, marked his return to Croatian photography. Exhibitions followed in many Croatian towns: Osijek, Novigrad, Split, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Karlovac, Sisak, Rijeka, and Daruvar. He has won many awards for his work. In 2010 he was an artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In the same year, his Paris works, entitled Paris – Sketches for a Portrait of the City, were exhibited in the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
He has had solo exhibitions in sixteen European countries, Argentina, Japan, and the United States. His photographs can be found in many collections in Europe, Croatia, and America. Several Croatian publishers have used his photographs on the covers of their books.
Stanko Abadžić is a member of the Croatian Association of Artists, the Croatian Association of Freelance Artists, and the Zagreb Photo Club. He lives and works in Zagreb.
