Photo club Split is organizing ”SPLIT FOTO SALON 2023”, the first international salon of photography in Split, and the call for entry is open until 5 March 2023. The jury consists of prominent photography experts : Draženka Jalšić Ernečić, Nicolò Sertorio, Maja Strgar Kurečić, Ranko Đurović  and Nenad Martić, who will decide which works are going to be presented at the exhibition and the Salon opening on 27 March. How to apply check HERE.

DRAŽENKA JALŠIĆ ERNEČIĆ, art historian, senior curator of the Koprivnica Museum, curator, and photo editor. As a curator of museum art collections, she emphasizes graphic design, photography, and printing processes. She writes articles, critics, essays, and reviews on photography, the anthropology of photography, and visual communication.

She publishes on photography in professional and specialized magazines, portals, and online editions. Exhibition and portfolio reviews, essays, and selections on photography were in specialized websites and magazines in Europe and America. She is a member of the international jury of the Photolucida Portland (OR) and an occasional correspondent and editor of the daily online photography magazine Lenscratch LA (CA), which connects the regional, national, and international photography community. She is a member of the jury and photo curator in the Culture in Focus Annual Competition, the biennial of fine art photography Vizura, and the biennial of applied and commercial photography ProART.

Experienced in research, digitization, processing, protection and restoration of cultural and photographic heritage, museums management and marketing, organization, production, and post-production of exhibitions and museum collaborations, she emphasizes the importance of visual language and photography as an object, digitization, and protection of photography as a cultural heritage. As a curator, author, and editor, she organized hundreds of exhibitions, including several museum collaborations and international photo projects.

Nicolò Sertorio is an Oakland-based artist and educator who works primarily in photography. His practice is focused on the nature of co-existence, global and individual responsibility, while creating conversations around our best path forward. His projects engage socio-anthropological ideas by examining social behavior and environmental impact through image-making. His art spotlights the hidden costs of contemporary life, including economic disparity, environmental issues, and loss of identity. His multicultural background informs his pluralist sensibility and approach: he was born in Princeton, New Jersey (USA), raised in a multicultural family of artists, scientists and academics in Italy, and has also lived in Switzerland, Ireland, Belgium, India, and Germany. Nicolò has developed from an early age an affinity for the ‘other’.

Sertorio’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at galleries and institutions worldwide, including Diocletian’s Palace, in Split, Croatia, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the FORMAT festival in Derby, United Kingdom. In addition, his photographic series Once We Were Here was recently featured in Scott Nichols Gallery’s booth at The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD.

Still recognizing the value of multicultural experience, Sertorio has created work during numerous international residencies, including the Tao Hua Tan Artist Residency in Xuancheng, Anhui, China and Kala Art Institute residency in West Berkeley, California. He is also an engaged community member in Oakland who has served as the president of the Northern California chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), and sits on the industry advisory board at the City College of San Francisco, sharing decades of commercial photography experience.

Sertorio is an award-winning photographer, recognized six times by American Photography. He is also a two-time finalist of Critical Mass and won First Prize from the PDN Photo Annual. His visual stories have been featured in numerous magazines and online periodicals, including Wired Magazine, LensCulture, AD, Domus, Elle, Getty, Marie Claire, and Black Enterprise, and he has created public, corporate, and privately commissioned artwork. Sertorio also currently teaches at CCSF and his work is represented by Scott Nichols gallery.

Maja Strgar Kurečić is a fine art photographer and an Associate Professor of photography at the Faculty of Graphic Arts, University of Zagreb. She also teach photography at the New Media Design faculty at RIT Croatia (Rochester Institute of Technology). She is the author of the university textbook Basics of Digital Photography, published by the Školska knjiga. She has been involved in photography for over 25 years. At the beginning of her career, Maja engaged mostly in advertising and reportage photography. The last few years she devoted to projects that fall within the field of abstract photography. She earned international recognition for her recent projects: Other Worlds, Escape Landscapes and Floating Garden that won many international awards. She exhibited photographs on over 60 group and 20 independent exhibitions, held in country and abroad. She is a member of ULUPUH (Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts) and CPPA (Croatian Press Photographers Association).

Ranko Đurović is an MD and photography MA. His work has been the subject of 12 solo and over 50 group exhibitions. He is the winner of several national and international awards: Sony World Photography Awards 2019 – 1st place, “Playboy Serbia” 2012 – First prize, FIAP gold medal – Nude Act “Life Balance”, 2013, PSA gold medal 2017, Manhattan-New York, Gold medal “Portrait” 2015 “ARTZ”, Silver medal FSS 2014, Portrait / Art balance, Bronze medal 2013, Russian Museum of Photography, “Photofinish”, 2010 – 2nd place, Gold Medal 2010, “October 15” – Zaječar

He is the founder of the international festival of contemporary photography “24. kadar” (24th frame: 24 photographers – 24 topics – 24 hours – 24 members of the jury).

Nenad Martić graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Pedagogical Academy in Zagreb. He has been a member of Photo Club Zagreb since 2013. He is a member of Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts and Croatian Association of Artists. At the very beginning of his professional work, he worked on comics, illustrations and graphic design.

In 1991, he founded the graphic studio “Dva M”. He has been involved in illustration and design his entire professional life.

He has been engaged in photography since 2010. He especially likes to take photos of people integrated into their environment (street photography), to patiently wait for that decisive moment when a man and his surroundings unconsciously create an artistic composition, worthy of being immortalised.

A large part of Nenad’s works consists of processed photographs; magical results, the process of creation which includes, in addition to fieldwork, a multi-hour processing process in one’s own dark studio – instead of in a chamber, at a computer – using a combination of imagination and photomontage techniques.

He is a member of the management board of Photo Club Zagreb.

He had his first solo photo exhibition at the Zagreb Photo Club (2014). So far, he has exhibited his work at numerous group exhibitions in the country and abroad, as well as at six solo exhibitions.

To date, he has received over 30 gold medals at FIAP’s international competitions.

2 times shortlisted – Sonny World Cup (2015 and 2016).

Merit Medal – HIPA (2017).

He is the winner of the Grand Prix-Fernando Soprano for 2019.

Winner of the Tošo Dabac award for 2019.

Winner of the first prize for black and white photography, Split Foto Salon 2022.

Winner of FIAP titles, AFIAP (2018), EFIAP (2019), EFIAP bronze (2020), EFIAP silver, (2021), EFIAP gold (2022).

He lives and works in Zagreb and Cres.