KENTUCKY FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN GRANT
I received a grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women to tell personal stories how women are affected by the loss of their mothers through a photographic exhibition and a panel....
19 October, 2020
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Who Am I?
Dijana Muminovic is a Bosnian-American award-winning documentary photographer, and is the founder of School of Photography Association in Zenica, the only photo program in Bosnia-Herzegovina that offers photo classes to all community members regardless of age.
I returned to Bosnia for the first time in 2001. I reunited with Tanja, and while on a train ride with her, the traces of the war I survived, my new life in the US, all culminated into one moment when I watched her gentle face reflect in the window. Who am I? Who have I become? A Muslim—my father’s side of family, or Catholic, my Mom’s side. Is religion what will define me? I knew that I did not want to be defined by this word: refugee.
I'm a Refugee
A voice echoed across the Hungarian-Croatian border: “What is your name?”
I knew this voice was speaking to me because these are the connections we are talking about. When the people we want to photograph decide to fully trust us. It’s the moment they see who we are without our cameras.
“Dijana, what is your name?”
"LILIAN!!"
My TEDx Talk
Is a website, a tribute to our moms who are no longer here. Because of a connection with my Mom, I noticed a photography pattern in my work: women and children. This inspired me to reach out to other women, and to speak about the subject. Together, we became voices of women who remember their Moms. Project supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women.
Dear Mom,
School of Photography Zenica
The only photo program in Bosnia-Herzegovina that offers photo classes to all community members regardless of age; 7-year-old being the youngest, and 78-year-old, the oldest.
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MY TEDX TALK
"What is your name?" I knew this voice was speaking to me because these are exactly the connections we are talking about. This becomes a decisive moment if the people we want to photograph will fully trust us and feel safe around us, or not. This is the moment people see who we are without our cameras....
19 October, 2020
Photo On the Book Cover
A photograph I took in Srebrenica appears on Christina Lamb’s new book “Our Bodies, Their Battlefield”. Christina is the co-author of “I am Malala”....
15 October, 2020