TITLE: Mini-mall

This is a series of photographs of my local store which I photographed during different times of the day, from sunrise to sunset, and in the night. The aluminum roof with horizontal lines made this motif very interesting to capture, especially because of the different light and shadow play during the day. The observations of the architectural structure and quantity of the penetrated light that plays geometrical shadow play on the walls made this series very aesthetically and artistically pleasing. I worked mainly within the boundaries of minimalism and tried to avoid the presence of life, except for the symbolical image of the lone seagull whose wings almost duplicate the light triangles of the building beneath him. This is also a radical reduction of the expected imagery of the shopping mall.

AUTHOR: Mario Županović (Croatia)

I am a professor of film studies at University of Zadar. Got my PhD in 2015, and in 2018 published a monograph "Latin American Cinema and Identities". I am a co-founder and artistic director of the independent cinematheque "Kino Zona" in Zadar, Croatia. I made numerous artistic projects mainly in performance and theater from 2002-2010. I begin to photograph mainly architectural spaces in 2020. I've curated an activist group project ""Neglected spaces" with six photographers with final exhibition presented at People's Museum Zadar, Croatia in 2020. From 2022 I am working on a ongoing photographic project "Other spaces" where I reinterpret the spaces that I frequently visit, like university campus, local store, industrial building etc.

Awards:
2nd place ND Awards 2023, series, architecture
3rd place Sarajevo Photography Festival 2023
HM IPA 2023, fine art: Minimal/Minimalism
HM Monochrome Awards 2023, professional

Solo exhibition "Other spaces" Public Library Split, Croatia 20.3-5.4. 2023
Group exhibition:
Split Foto Salon 2023
Co-exhibition "Shifts & Delays" at Monoplay festival, Zadar, Croatia
Sarajevo Photography Festival 2023, winners exhibition