Following the example of many other prestigious and renowned photography salons in Croatia and the world, Fotoklub Split launched the Split Photo Salon in 2022, initiated by the then-president of the association, Maja Prgomet. There were more than enough reasons for this: photography in Split has a long tradition, the importance of which is recognized both nationally and in a European context. Fotoklub Split, with its 113 years of history, has played an important, if not key, role in promoting photography and shaping the local photographic scene.
A total of 117 submissions and 1,129 photographs were received for the fourth edition of the Split Photo Salon. Since the salon is open to all, the participants included numerous amateurs as well as professional photographers with many recognitions and awards behind them. In addition to authors from Croatia, this year there were also participants from Ukraine, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro.
The participants competed in three categories: open theme black-and-white, open theme color, and the STREET category. The selection of winning works and exhibition choices was made by a professional jury consisting of Dr. Art Svetislav Cvetković (painter and photographer, dean of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mostar), Glorija Lizde (photographer, visual artist), and Jasmina Šarić (art historian, curator). In each category, three awards and three honorable mentions were given for the best photographs, and in this exhibition catalog, as well as in the Fotoklub Split Photography Gallery, a selection of the 45 best photographs is presented, with 15 from each category.
The exhibition was realized with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia and the City of Split, and is part of the regular annual program of the Fotoklub Split association, funded by the "Kultura nova" Foundation.
The exhibition will remain open until April 30 and can be viewed during the opening hours of the Photography Gallery.