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Balsa Rakocevic

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Bio

Balsa Rakocevic was born in 1985. He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Production at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro. Professionally engaged in the media since 2004, working as a cameraman, photojournalist, photo editor, producer, and executive producer. He has been actively involved in photography since 2005. He has held fifteen group exhibitions and five solo exhibitions. He is the recipient of the Audience Award at the international press photography competition of Beta News Agency in 2013, as well as the award for contribution to the development of Montenegrin press photography at Mont Press Photo in 2016. In 2025, at the Tivat Photo Days Festival, he received the first prize “Vojo Radonjić.”

Country of residence

Montenegro

Nationality

Montenegro

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Landscape with a dog”

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Safe view

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Friends

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RAW 2018.

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“Shadows’ conversation” 2011

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Portrait of an actress. Podgorica, Montenegro, 2017.

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Toshkowitch. Portrait of an artist.

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Watchmaker. Portrait of the Podgorica watchmaker Duško Pejović.

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Tomo. Portrait of a Montenegrin painter. 2012.

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Reflection. A portrait photographed in Cetinje, on an April evening in 2024.

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Linear landscape. Bar – Sutomore 2022, a small coastal town in Montenegro.

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Circle. Worker at a landfill, recycling car tires. Environmental protection project. Podgorica, Montenegro 2026

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*Waiting for Normality*. Photograph taken in Podgorica in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Waiting for the

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Young Farmer. Photograph from 2018. A boy tending his sheep in the town of Berane in northern Montenegro. Behind him is

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Water Carrier.

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Protest. Photograph taken in Podgorica 2016. during protests against the government and poor living conditions. The

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Worker at the Aluminum Plant. Photograph taken in Podgorica in 2015. From a series dedicated to workers in factories

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Uroš Tošković, 2010.

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Rain as Salvation, 2013, Podgorica.

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Podgorica 2025.