Luka Knežević Strika

Freelance photographer based in Belgrade, specialized in documentary photography. He worked for Exit Festival, Share, Mikser, Dis-patch festival and also for the Museum Night, Festival of Science, CSR Business Forum and other institutions. In his free time, he uses energy and photography for his personal projects, but also to work with the Belgrade Raw collective. He exhibited independently, but also with the collective in Serbia, Montenegro, Austria, Germany and Sweden. He is one of the drivers of the Pohvala Prize, awarded to the individuals for contribution of the contemporary visual art here. The prize consists of a monetary amount collected in various a(u)ctions or donations initiated by all of the interested. The purpose of launching this prize is desire to draw attention to the various of good practices in artistic scene development: personal contributions, significant ideas, ventures, movements, new value criteria, specialty and innovation.

 

He is currently the president of the Management Board in Independent Culture Scene in Serbia organization, the associations of the organizations, initiatives and individuals in the field of culture and art in Serbia, which realizes and exchanges programs in Serbia and abroad, activities of strengthening own capacities and capacities of its members, but also through the dialog with the policy makers, striving to promote the development of the innovative and critical artistic practices, to affect on culture politics in Serbia, as well as all the other politics that are connected to the culture politics, and to contribute the culture decentralization in Serbia and establishment of the regional culture collaboration in Southeast Europe.