She was the photo editor of the weekly "Vreme", giving it a visual identity with an almost heroic feat. Goranka, a dear person with a bright spirit
Goranka Matić died, an art historian who dedicated her life to photography, left a striking image of a troubled and turbulent era in its heroes, and as a photo editor, author and good spirit of the editorial office in difficult times, made an immeasurable contribution to the weekly "Vreme", which remains her a grateful debtor.
Originally from Gorski Kotar, born in Maribor on August 13, 1949, she grew up in Slovenia and Macedonia (Kumanovo), and in Belgrade, where her family moved in 1961. She graduated from the Tenth Gymnasium, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in the field of art history.
She began to work professionally in photography in 1980. Her portraits of writers, rock and pop musicians marked contemporary trends and the spirit of the musical New Wave and the artistic circle that gathered around the Student Cultural Center in the 1980s, where she was an assistant in the art program from 1971. then as a professional associate and curator of the Happy New Art gallery.
From 1978 to 1980, she managed Gallery 45 in New Belgrade, where she organized more than twenty exhibitions. Before coming to "Vreme" at the time of our paper's founding, she published photos for "Jukebox", "Start", "Svijet", "Omladinske novine", "Duga", "Delo", "Polet", "Moment", "Beorama". ", "Rhythm", "New Moment" and others.
From 1990 to 2006, she was the photo editor of the weekly "Vreme", giving it a visual identity with an almost heroic feat. At the moment, when the news of her death hit us before the end of the January print edition, we must remember how at the beginning of the preparation of the first issue there were only a few photos available on the newsstand and how she, with her reputation and creative energy, enabled the photo to be striking part of the visual identity of our paper and to remain a striking testimony of the culture of street protests of the 1990s and the spirit of that time.
From 2006 to 2010, she worked as a photo editor at "Politica", and from 2010 to 2015 at Radio Television of Serbia. She taught photojournalism at the Faculty of Political Sciences and was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications, in the subjects of photojournalism and documentary photography.
A retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2020 spoke impressively about her oeuvre.
She also published several books, among which stand out: Days of pain and pride, Ten years against.
She is the winner of many awards, including the October Salon Award (1989), the "Winning of Freedom" Award (2002), Politikina's Award (2004), the Annual Award of ULUPUDS (2005); UNS Lifetime Achievement Award of the "Tanja Petrović" Foundation Award (2021).
The news of the death reached the editorial office of "Vremena" just before the end of the printed issue, and the editorial office sadly promises to publish a worthy tribute to our Goranka Matić in the next printed edition. Unfortunately, due to the force of circumstances and the newspaper's note in this place, with only a few biographical data, we remind you of that dear person with a bright spirit and prolific author.
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