Jo\u0161t Franko (b. 1993, Ljubljana) is a visual artist and photographer researching migrations, forced displacement, worker\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 Koro\u0161ka, Museum of Modern Art Klagenfurt, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana +MSUM, etc. Franko\u2019s work was profiled by numerous international media outlets, including e-Flux, TIME Magazine (Jo\u0161t Franko, The Young Slovenian), The New Yorker (Jost Franko\u2019s Disappearing Slovenia), The New York Times, La Repubblica, Washington Post, Delo, PDN, NPR, etc. He holds a Master\u2019s degree from Goldsmiths and is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This exhibition is supported by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF) program \u2018EJA Kosovo\u2019, co-financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Sweden. Ministria e Kultur\u00ebs, Rinis\u00eb dhe Sportit, National Gallery of Kosovo, SMART Balkans<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo\u0161t Franko (b. 1993, Ljubljana) is a visual artist and photographer researching migrations, forced displacement, worker\u2019s rights, counter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scanning-the-region-en","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n