On August 31, 2019, at the FIAP exhibition space of Sile Sanat Saraj in Konya, Republic of Turkey, the club exhibition of Kumanovo Photo Club was inaugurated. The event attracted a large number of citizens and photography enthusiasts. The exhibition is a collective effort featuring works from nearly all members of the Kumanovo Photo Club. Each photograph and its respective author convey individuality, interests, and diversity through the language of photography. Each photo tells its unique story, evoking a range […]
Jan Valo’s photographs are interwoven with an existentialist thread that, through a gesture captured in a photograph, connects us to the lost and motivates us to search for what, as Milton would say, is ‘paradise lost.’ The objects in the photos are always different. In some images, the objects serve as characters, capable of interaction and conveying a message. In other photos, the objects are natural phenomena. This implies that the homonymy of the objects is not a universal feature […]
On the last day, Sunday, May 26, the Festival continued with a morning photo safari in Kriva Palanka, near the monastery of St. Joakim Osogovski. Following the safari, at 12:00 p.m., the festival shifted to the Kriva Palanka City Museum for the opening of the exhibition featuring photographs by Macedonian authors, who will also be represented in the upcoming book titled ‘About Macedonian Photography.’ The grand finale of ‘Malinski’ unfolded with an independent exhibition by the author Bozidar Barlakoski from […]
The official opening of the Festival took place on May 25th (Saturday) at 12:00, in NUCC “Trajko Prokopiev” with the well-known inter-club exhibition entitled “Circle.” This year, members of our FC Kumanovo club had the opportunity to test their skills with Photo-cinema club Paraqin from Serbia, considered one of the most significant and award-winning clubs in the region. The photos, submitted by the members, were judged by last year’s competitor, ‘Format’ photo club from Čačak. This competitive exhibition showcased about […]
The sixth edition of the Malinski Photo Festival started on Friday, May 24, 2019 in the premises of the Crafts House in Kumanovo. For the first day, photographic screenings of several domestic and international authors were planned, including:
Last week, members of the Kumanovo Photo Club initiated a workshop at the premises of ZRCLIP “Poraka Nasha,” aimed at individuals with disabilities. The workshop aims to foster social involvement through education, improvement, and the promotion of artistic photography. People with disabilities will have the opportunity to interact with and learn from the members of FC Kumanovo. Through theoretical discussions and practical activities, participants will grasp the fundamentals of photography. Photographs taken by individuals with disabilities from “Poraka Nasha” and […]
The Photo Club Kumanovo, along with its members, has collaborated with the Graffiti Fest 2019 project, organized under the auspices of OOU ‘Krste Misirkov’ from Kumanovo. Our members will engage with the festival participants, capturing their creations and modes of expression through photography. The goal is to encapsulate the essence of these young talents by taking portrait photos and capturing a small slice of the vibrant atmosphere.
If a woman asked the question: what is being a woman, then being a woman photographer is revealing the answers to that eternal question. It was never easy to define a question, and even less easy – to be a real woman. Perhaps to answer it is harder than to live really as a woman. Being a woman is a great challenge and a fight, and being a woman photographer is to double the difficulty of the challenge and the […]
At the Annual Meeting of Photo Club “Kumanovo” from Kumanovo, held on December 23, 2018, in the name of the club, the president Marina Krstic awarded several awards to the members of the association. Zaklina Stefanovska was recognized as the most active photographer due to her activities in the promotion of artistic photography in Kumanovo and in the organization of several photography events, including the Malinska Photo Festival, the largest photography festival in the Balkans. Despite numerous personal and professional […]
Third year in a row Kratovo has played the role of host to the international exhibition of art photography named “Koriton”. Namely, on December 15 this year, at the Culture center “Lazar Sofijanov”, an exhibition was opened in organization of the Photo Club “Kumanovo”. The exhibition had patronages from the National Photo Union of Macedonia and the International Association of Art Photographers (IAAP). At the opening of the exhibition were attended about 50 people from mainly Kratovo and other cities. […]