DRAGANA JURIŠIĆ

CREATIVE PLACEMAKERS - DIRECTOR

Dragana Jurišić is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker. She has exhibited extensively and won numerous awards, including the Golden Fleece Special Recognition Award, the IMMA 1000 Residency Award, the Dorothea Lange – Paul Taylor Prize, and numerous Bursaries and Project Awards. Jurišić’s work is in a number of significant collections, including the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council Collection and the Irish State Art Collection. 

Her first book, YU: The Lost Country (2015) received accolades worldwide. It was described in The Guardian as "a haunted, as well as haunting book; the fallout of the past buried, rather than faced." Jurišić’s’s second book Museum (2019), a collaboration with Paula Meehan (now in its 2nd edition) received excellent reviews. Her Own, published in December 2022, received outstanding reviews in El Pais (“A powerful narrative that intertwines the history of women from different eras, whose stories were silenced for different reasons”), The Irish Times (“compelling” and “direct yet poetic”), RTE Culture (“physically and texturally exquisite book, like a Bible”) and Photomonitor (“standout” and a “book poised brilliantly between the frankness and directness of so much of Jurišić’s writing and unfathomability of Gordana”).

Jurisic was a cinematographer and researcher on the feature documentary Get the Picture (dir. Cathy Pearson, 2013), an award-winning documentary about the remarkable life of John G. Morris, one of the most influential photo editors of the 20th century. She co-directed a 26-minute short film, Home | Ireland (2020), exploring the concept of home with asylum seekers in Direct Provision, commissioned by the National Gallery of Ireland. Dragana Jurisic is currently finishing her first feature-length documentary, The Last Balkan Cowboy.