Jošt Franko (b. 1993, Ljubljana) is a visual artist and photographer researching migrations, forced displacement, worker’s rights, counter narratives, and communal deliberations of precarious lives. Using photography, text, fieldwork, elements of social practice, and collaborations as a form of engagement with social issues, his artistic practice focuses on the many lost, unspoken, or unheard narratives of displaced communities in the Balkan Peninsula. Franko is a recipient of TED Fellowship, multiple Pulitzer Center grants, The Aftermath Project grant, recognitions by the Duke University’s Lange-Taylor Prize and Documentary Essay Prize. His work was exhibited in museums and festivals in internationally, including the New York Photo Festival, Finnish Museum of Photography, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroška, Museum of Modern Art Klagenfurt, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana +MSUM, etc. Franko’s work was profiled by numerous international media outlets, including e-Flux, TIME Magazine (Jošt Franko, The Young Slovenian), The New Yorker (Jost Franko’s Disappearing Slovenia), The New York Times, La Repubblica, Washington Post, Delo, PDN, NPR, etc. He holds a Master’s degree from Goldsmiths and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Jošt Franko
