From Zuljana to Lumbarda

Boris Cvjetanović

Born in Zagreb, 1953.
Graduated in 1976 at the Academy of Pedagogy in Zagreb – Visual Arts Department.
Worked as a conservationist at the Croatian Conservation Institute from 1976 to 1984.

Started professionally working with photography in 1981 . Started working for a youth magazine SL on the same year, and in 1987 was named Editor of Photography.

He published in numerous independent and collective exhibitions throughout the world (Croatia, Europe, USA, Japan, Australia…). He is the winner of several prestigious awards (1st Tokyo International Photo-Biennale '95 in Japan, Grand Prix at the Croatian Photography Exhibition in ’97, and the Homo Volans Award in 1997)

In 1996 he issued a photography book 'Scenes without meaning’.
On the same year his photos were published in the book 'Echoes – Contemporary Art at the Age of Endless Conclusions' by Francesca Bonami (The Monacelli Press, New York, 1996).
They are a part of several significant world collections: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography;
Modern Art Museum, Zagreb; Dante Marino Cettina Gallery, Umag; Modern Gallery Rijeka; Art Gallery Split; Croatian Historical Museum, Zagreb, as well as several private collections.

He is the member of the Croatian Community of Independent Artists.