Mark Kasumovic
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Mark Kasumovic (born 1982) is a Canadian artist, photographer and academic. His artistic work has tackled subjects such as tourism, religion, science and technology and often employs the use of a view camera..[1] He is a Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of Photography at De Montfort University, Leicester [2]
Life and Work
Mark Kasumovic was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1982. He studied photography at Toronto Metropolitan University (2005-2009) under artists Robert Burley and Phil Bergerson. He completed his postgraduate education (2010-2012) at NSCAD University in Nova Scotia in 2012.[3] He later received his doctorate (2013-2018) from University of Western Ontario in Fine Arts and Visual Communication. [4]
Kasumovic's work was featured in the Magenta Foundation Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers publication in 2009 and 2010, compiling emerging artists and photographers from Canada, the US and the UK.[5][6]
In 2010, Kasumovic was commissioned by the Ontario Greenbelt (Golden Horseshoe) to photograph recreational spaces in Southwestern Ontario, culminating in a public exhibition called Beyond Imaginings at the Harbourfront Centre.[7][8] In 2012, he was commissioned by the Harbourfront Centre to produce work in response to the bi-centennial of the War of 1812, producing hybridized images capturing war re-enactors in various Ontario cities including Wasaga Beach.[9]
Since 2013, Kasumovic's work has focused on photographing international laboratories such as CERN, SNOLAB and the Svalbard Seed Vault, in an attempt to build relationships between the acts of photography and scientific discovery.[4] His related doctoral thesis argues for a contemporary form of Radical Documentary grounded in political and aesthetic incoherence[4], and uses the photobook as a medium to explore these concepts. His resulting self-published book titled "A Human Laboratory" was later as selected as a winner in the 2023 Belfast Photography Festival.[10]
References
- ↑ Sandals, Leah (September 24, 2010). "Recreational Photography". Toronto: National Post. p. 74.
- ↑ "Mark Kasumovic". www.dmu.ac.uk.
- ↑ "NSCAD 2012 Graduate Catalogue by Michael LeBlanc - Issuu". issuu.com.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Kasumovic, Mark (June 19, 2018). "Interfaces of Nearness: Documentary Photography and the Representation of Technology". Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- ↑ Flash Forward 2009, Toronto: Magenta Foundation
- ↑ Flash Forward 2010, Toronto: Magenta Foundation
- ↑ Staff, N. O. W. (June 24, 2010). "Greenbelt gambol - NOW Magazine".
- ↑ "Eight Photographers for Harbourfront Centre's Major Commission for Outdoor Exhibition". artdaily.cc.
- ↑ "War of 1812: Seen through the eyes of modern artists". thestar.com. June 2, 2012.
- ↑ "Belfast Photo Festival". Belfast Photo Festival.
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