Office for Photography
Čanićeva Street 6
10000 Zagreb
info@officeforphotography.com
Office for Photography (Ured za fotografiju or UzF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation in Zagreb, founded in 2011. Its work is aimed at the research, development, promotion and contextualisation of innovative artistic practices in the fields of photography and new media, as well as the practices which encourage and nurture positive social changes and inclusion. The programs that UzF endorses rely on scientific research and artistic work, while thematically and content-wise following current issues in the fields of photography and the new media, the avant-garde artistic practices and the theory of art and philosophy. UzF’s purpose is to raise the general literacy in common photographic expressions, to promote and contextualise photographic and new-media art works, the production of new artistic realisations, the creation of new knowledge, the production of art works, and the systematic development of photography theory.
The programs and activities run by us were developed according to the values of UzF, which are the autonomous, critical, reflexive and proactive action through openness, innovation and creativity in our work and deliberation in the service of valorisation, (re)interpretation, and the protection of cultural and artistic photography inheritance.
The Office’s mission is to develop the production and distribution of artistic works and projects, and scientific research and participation programs in the fields of modern culture and art in order to present, contextualise and develop photography and new-media theory. Our mission is “the battle for forward, innovative ideas, new understandings and the research spirit within the domain of photography.” (SPOT, Nr 1, 1972)