Author Archives: sanja

It is a great pleasure and a profound honor to share that journalist Lucia Steinwender and I have been awarded the prestigious Recherchepreis Osteuropa 2026. Our project focuses on a critical question: Do German car manufacturers take responsibility for the people who make their cars? In Serbia, tens of thousands of workers, mostly women on assembly lines, produce components for German car brands. They work under intense health pressure, for low wages, and with limited labor rights. As a photographer, […]

Before my pregnancies, I was an active and dedicated documentary photographer, but stepping away from my career to bring two lives into the world changed everything. Motherhood temporarily disconnected me from the profession I loved. In a fast-paced industry like ours, a long maternity leave is incredibly challenging. Editors move on, you quickly get left out of the loop, and people start to forget your name. It is a deeply vulnerable period where you constantly question your own worth and […]

This photograph was taken in 2009 at the YU Press Photo awards. What makes it deeply personal is that it captures both me and my colleague Igor Pavićević. We grew up in the exact same neighborhood in Belgrade and we both lived on the top floors of our buildings. From my building, I could see his terrace just a hundred meters away, separated only by the playground where I used to play football with the neighborhood boys as a young […]

In 2014, when I returned from Indonesia to Belgrade, I had an exceptional experience spending time and learning from Magnum photographer Olivia Arthur. I love my profession not just for the photography itself, but for these precious moments where our paths cross with great names in world photography

Memories from 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan, at the international photography exhibition ”Witness to Silence” held at the stunning building of  the National 228 Memorial Museum. It was such an amazing experience – meeting and having fun with Asian photographers, sharing time together with a glass of drink and local specialities. In addition, the host organised for us tour both in the city and outside in stunning nature nearby the ocean.

Such an honor to be featured in French 9Lives Magazine dedicated to contemporary photography. Many thanks to the curator Maria Xypolopoulou, for the interview and the opportunity to discuss my development and approach as a documentary photographer, particularly on sociopolitical themes in Serbia and the Balkans. You can read the article at this link.

Thrilled to see my photograph on the cover of Montenegrin cultural magazine “Odzivi”, featuring me as an artist along with my reportage on student protests.

Great pleasure for winning award plaque at ULUPUDS Annual May Exhibition which took place in Konak Kneginje Ljubice in Belgrade.

It is a great honor for me that the organizers of Tivat Photo Days accepted my participation in the festival based on my Montenegrin origin. The second edition of the Tivat Photo Days festival and the accompanying exhibition Reflections, featuring the works of 12 artists from Montenegro, was opened at the Museum and Gallery Tivat by Prof. Dr. Anka Gardašević, the festival’s selector.