ZORAN KOLARIC was born in 1971 in Cakovec, Croatia, where he still lives and works as a software developer.
He has been intensively involved in photography for the last ten years, and his photographic work focuses mainly on street/documentary photography, portrait, nude, and “dance’ photography.
He is a member of Photo club Zagreb.
Up til today, he held five solo exhibitions and he has participated in more than one hundred group international and national photography exhibitions and received more than a hundred awards and recognitions.
Alongside photography, he also works in education and popularization of photography through photography workshops, which he organizes and leads.
He says about his work: Photography enriches me daily as a person not with the awards, exhibitions, compliments or likes on the internet (although I like that as well) but with the fact that observing the world through the lens makes me understand, love and appreciate life more and mare as i perceive moments details, motives and meet many people dear to me on both sides of the lens. t would probably have missed out on a lot of this in my life if had not discovered this “magic” that allows me EO freeze a moment by drawing with light and stay par of it forever, as the moment stays a part of me.
Ana Zanko, Art historian:
“The photographic cycle “Passers-by” was created during the author’s visits to European cities.
However, instead of the glorified colorfulness and vividness of photographs/postcards that all cities usually after us, Kolaric’s photographic notes are tendentiously minimalistic – man and city coexist exclusively as elements of composition, light and shadow.
The minimalism and refinement of photographic expression testify that for Kolarić, photography is primarily a thought process, a reflection – both in terms of form and content – and an effort to stage a moment that will sum up the weight of the photographic thought that creates it.
Most importantly, Kolarić remains a credible street art photographer who skillfully avoids the pitfalls of pathos and does not lament the natural transience of human life. His focus remains on the value of (every) moment that can, in the play of light and shadow, man and space, bring something new – Kolaric’s characters may be rushing to a meeting, have just broken up with someone, maybe afraid of something or rejoice in what awaits them outside the frame in which the author has frozen them. We can thus all recognize ourselves in his “passers-by” with our daily worries, hopes, joys, fears and the moments that weave our lives. “