The News
PhotoColony - "Uvac '08" |
| Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:00 |
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November 1, 2008-exhibition of photography - "Intact Landscape of Soul" "Uvac" PhotoColony was organized for the first time, in the year of 2008. Organizer of the colony is Mr.Rade Prelić, a photographer with Tanjug news agency. Twelve professional and amateur photographers took part in the colony: Rade Prelić, Dragan Bosnić, Svetlana Dingarac, Zoran Pavlović, Sava Radovanović, Velimir Savatić, Fadil Šarki, Zoran Šaponjić, Nenad Petrović, Goran Bjelanović, as well as ambassadors of Poland and Japan in Serbia, Mr. Macei Shimansky and Mr. Tadashi Nagai. Thus we can say that "Uvac" PhotoColony was of an international character in the year of its foundation.  Photographs made within "Uvac" PhotoColony illustrate historical and cultural heritage of Raška region, Orthodox Christian monuments, natural beauties and the ways of life and work of people from Stara Raška.Exhibition of the most successful works from this PhotoColony, titled "Intact landscape of Soul" was organized in the foyer of "Jovan Tomić" Cultural Center, in Nova Varoš, on November 1, 2008, Nova Varoš Municipality Day. Citizens of Nova Varoš municipality showed quite an interest in the exhibition. As of beginning of December 2008, works made within "Uvac '08" PhotoColony are being exhibited in Prijepolje National Museum, so that they are available to nature and art lovers from Prijepolje as well. Organizers are planning to make the PhotoColony traditional and to use the collected material for organizing representative photography exhibitions in the end of each year. |