Dragan Saric is a sociologist and lens-based artist originally from Yugoslavia. Born in a country that doesn’t exist anymore, Dragan is interested in the social mechanisms behind displacement: questioning the boundaries between longing and belonging, the homely and unhomely.
Working in-between sociology and photography, Dragan explores liminal spaces and hauntology – spaces in between departure and arrival; and the lingering presence of what is ‘no longer’ and ‘not yet’. Capturing images through conventional, infrared and radio imaging, his work seeks to revisit histories and futures that are no longer physically present.
Shaping images through a poetic, rather than a documentary lens, he connects personal narratives and memories to broader social and historical frameworks. Throughout his practice Dragan questions what leaving behind and forming an identity means in an increasingly globally connected and fragmented society.
His photobook Tomorrow Hotel has received the MPB Special Mention at PhMuseum’s 2025 Photobook Award, and has been shortlisted on multiple occasions. Dragan was also a participant in Fotodok’s Lighthouse program, as well as a resident of RPS PAPEROLES in Kyoto. He is currently based in-between the Netherlands, Taiwan and Bosnia.
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Education
2016 – Utrecht University – MSc in Sociology.
2024 – FOTODOK Utrecht – Lighthouse 2024/2025 program.
2026 – RPS PAPEROLES Kyoto – Spring artist residency.
2026 – RPS Kyoto by Yumi Goto, Jan Rosseel – Photobook as object Workshop.
Awards and Honors
2026 – Fotografia Europea FE+SK Book award – Shortlisted.
2025 – PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award – MPB Special Mention.
2025 – VaiF Thessaloniki Photobook – Shortlisted.
2025 – OFF Batislava; Off Libris – Shortlisted.
2025 – PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award – Shortlisted.
2025 – THE PHOTOBOOKMUSEUM DUMMY AWARD – ’25 short-list.
2024 – FOTODOK LIGHTHOUSE – 2024/2025 Edition selection.
2023 – PASSEPARTOUT PRIZE – 7th edition winner of The Docks Prize.
2023 – GUP FRESH EYES INTERNATIONAL – 5th edition talent.
2023 – Charta Award 2022 – Short-listed.
2022 – GUP FRESH EYES – 4th edition talent.
Exhibitions
2026 – PH Museum Days, international photo festival Bologna – Archipelago.
2026 – RPS PAPEROLES Kyoto, Photobook as an object – Public presentation.
2025 – PhotobookMania Bologna – PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award Exhibition.
2025 – Rib Rotterdam, Cur. Maziar Afrassiabi – Mirror Becomes a Partner.
2025 – VaiF Festival Thessaloniki – Photobook Exhibition.
2025 – Off Bratislava – OFF Libris Photobook Exhibition
2025 – 35th Encontros da Imagem Braga- 2025 Photobook award Exhibition.
2025 – The Photobook Museum – Dummy Award 25′ world tour.
2024 – ART-ICON Paris – Corporeality group exhibition.
2024 – 34th Encontros da Imagem Braga – 2024 Photobook award exhibition.
2024 – Breda Photo – Beam Night screening.
2023 – Haute Photgraphie Amsterdam – Fresh Eyes presentation.
2023 – Charta Festival Rome – Shortlisted group presentation.
2023 – Haute Photographie Rotterdam – Fresh Eyes print exhibition.
2022 – Haute Photographie Amsterdam – Fresh Eyes screen exhibition.
Publications
2025 – PhMuseum Annual #01 Imperfetto – ISBN 9788894686685.
2025 – Kamira Institute: Eyes on the Wold – ISBN 9791097906405.
2025 – The Dummy Award 2025 – MAS Matbaa & ThePhotobookMuseum.
2025 – TOMORROW HOTEL – Self-published handmade edition of 10.
2024 – ART-ICON – Exhibition catalogue.
2023 – GUP Fresh Eyes International Annual – Xpublishers.
2022 – GUP Fresh Eyes Annual – Ypublishers.
Talks
2024 – Raise Your Zine Festival Napoli – Tomorrow Hotel: A journey trough parallel histories, liminality and (be)longing.
Features
2024 – Giostre X – Article about Tomorrow Hotel.
2024 – Arttaca – Selected Artist.
2024 – LoosenArt ‘Into the Night’ – Exhibition catalog.
2024 – LoosenArt ‘Nostalgia’ – Exhibition catalog.
2023 – Passepartout Photo Prize 7th edition – feature.
2023 – Yogurt Magazine – feature.
2022 – Passepartout Photo Prize 4th edition – feature.
2020 – Fotolab KieKie Amsterdam; Kiekie art – 2020 talent.
2020 – VOX-POP Amsterdam – Roaring 2020s digital exhibition.
2019 – Mobile Photography Awards – honourable mention.