Life
Life 2023
The photo exhibition “Life” is designed as an opportunity to get to know the contemporary slow living philosophy of Makarska through personal stories of the actors depicted in the photographs. The portrait photographs (in large formats) are exhibited in public spaces, on the facades of houses in the neighborhoods of Kalalarga street, photographs become meeting point and space for dialogue between the local residents, tourists, and passersby.
The motifs in the photographs are people who symbolize city life of Makarska, individuals who, through their work and life in Makarska, contribute to the city and influence the lives of their fellow citizens.
You can view the entire exhibition by taking a walk through the old city core during the summer months, exploring the neighborhoods and the human stories that make up the city. These are our models and their stories through the words of our talented photographer, Mare Milin.
Exhibition
The exhibition serves as an inspiration for both tourists and the local population to explore the old city core, discovering different aspects of the city that evoke emotions and create new experiences in experiencing Makarska as a tourist destination. The models come from various spheres of everyday life in Makarska, ranging from sports, music, and craftsmanship to urban legends. They share various stories, providing us with their perspective on life in Makarska.
This exhibition as part of the “Maestrale” project revives the city’s rich history through tradition, culture, art and tourism. The main goal is to offer a unique experience of the city by reviving its cultural heritage and the charm of the Dalmatian neighborhoods in an interactive manner, and to evoke the sense of ease of living that is characteristic of the Mediterranean region to which Makarska belongs.
The Foton NPO Association is responsible for the artistic part of the “Life” photo exhibition project. Through years of work and numerous exhibitions, workshops, and lectures by various renowned photographers from the country and the region, Foton is dedicated to promoting the art of photography and its authors. Association members have developed a concept to express their gratitude to their city through portraits of people who make Makarska the city as it is.
Through a series of photo exhibitions titled “Life,” the aim is to make the “small” stories of Makarska visible to audience over a period of several year.
In cooperation with the City of Makarska and the Tourist Board of the City of Makarska, the famous Croatian photographer Mare Milin from Zadar “lent” us her eye and captured beautiful portraits of ten people from Makarska.
Mare Milin is a photographer with over 25 years of dedicated work in the field of visual arts. She is involved in fashion photography and is also an illustrator. She shoots music videos, captures architecture and nature, and lives photography in a comprehensive way. Mare captured the photographs using the slow photography method, which involved getting to know the subjects, visiting them, discussing and agreeing on the approach and location, and then capturing them in the locations that are significant to them or vice versa – capturing the people who have left a mark on those locations, their “habitats,” places where they draw their life energy from.
MEET THE ORIGINAL SPIRIT OF MAKARSKA