Olga Karlovac

Photo, courtesy of Peter Murrell

Olga Karlovac is a self-taught, abstract and street photographer born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She is best known for her unique and expressive style of photography and her trilogy of self-published photobooks.

Olga uses her camera to capture fleeting moments and emotions. Working exclusively in black and white, predominantly after dark and rainy conditions, her abstract images blur the lines between figuration and visual poetry. Her dreamlike scenes take us down winding streets, inviting us to linger and lose track of time, and to recognize the familiar within the barely there.

In a mix of poetry and reflective prose, Olga wrote in the prologue of her book titled escape:

in the blink of an eye
in the moment between day and night,
somewhere at the edge of darkness and light
walking down an empty road below the mountain of memories
while strong winds from the north carve your marks all over my skin
i feel your breath
and i imagine…

Her photography has been featured in many photography magazines, such as black+white photography magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, der standard, inspired eye, and others. Olga has exhibited in group and solo around the world, but mainly in London, where she exhibited in Saatchi, POSK, ECAD, Project Space and other galleries, as well as in the rest of UK, New York, Belgium, Italy, Iran, Albania, Ireland, France, The Netherlands and others nations.

Following her trilogy's success, she is working on her next book. Olga also offers online tutorials to share her experience of shooting, producing and marketing photobooks.

More of Olga’s work may be appreciated on her website and her IG Account

Enquires about her work and publications may be directed to okarlovac@gmail.com

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Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality

-Lewis Carroll

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