BIO
I am Dino Kužnik, a New York-based Photographer, with a background in graphic design.
I use photography as a medium to immortalize aesthetically unique scenes, with an emphasis on color and composition. With 12 years of experience as a photojournalist, retoucher, and graphic designer, I now focus mainly on personal and commercial projects which include documentary and landscape photography, automotive and architectural subjects, environmental portraits, and fashion.
In 2019, I published my first hardcover book called Shaped by the West which has sold out in three editions. I have been featured and published in numerous publications, both online and in print, and my work has been exhibited in London, Ljubljana, New York, Toronto, Trieste, Arles, Detroit, and Paris.
In 2017, I was shortlisted for the landscape category of the Sony World Photography Awards and was exhibited in Somerset House alongside Martin Parr.
In 2022, I started a book publishing studio called Aliens in Residence with my business partner Arnaud Montagard. Our first book release, Leah Frances's Lunch Poems, sold out in three months after publication.
SELECTED CLIENTS
Tyler the Creator, Jay Versace, Tesla, Ami Paris, DNA Models, Adobe, The New Yorker, Wonderland Sun, Sugi, Urth, Dossier, Junbug, and more.
CONTACT
For bookings, assignments, licensing and commissions: hello@dinokuznik.com
For prints and 2021 catalog: prints@dinokuznik.com
ACHIEVEMENTS & EXHIBITIONS
URBAN 2022 Photo Awards, Jury, 2022
URTH, Ambassador, 2021/2022
ADOBE, Creative Residency Community Fund Recipient, 2020
URTH (formerly GOBE), Ambassador, 2020
Palm* Photo Prize, Shortlist, 2020
URBAN 2020 Photo Awards, Jury, 2020
URBAN 2019 Photo Awards, Jury, 2019
Daisie 100, Official Selection, 2018
Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Shortlist, Landscape Category, 2017
Photo Plus Expo Competition 2016, Your New York Minute, First Place Winner in the Brooklyn Category, 2016
Jury Award Winners for Animation Short, Fanima.tu Festival, 2009
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Home: A State of Transition - Kranj Foto Fest, Slovenia, 2022 (Group Exhibition)
Everything is Narrative, Detroit, USA, 2022 (Group Exhibition - Subjectively Objective)
Observations in the Ordinary, Detroit, USA, 2022 (Group Exhibition - Subjectively Objective)
Photo London, London, UK, 2022 (Photon Gallery)
Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2021 (Photon Gallery)
Photo London, London, UK, 2021 (Photon Gallery)
Shaped by the West, Vienna, Austria, June 11th 2021 (Solo Exhibition & Book Signing)
Shaped by the West, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2020 (Solo Exhibition)
Observations in the Ordinary, Detroit, USA, 2020 (Group Exhibition)
Street Sans Fronitères, Paris, France, 2019 (Group Exhibition)
Antihero Press Group Show - On Vulnerability Zine Release, New York, 2019 (Group Exhibition)
Trieste Photo Days - Street Sans Fronitères, Trieste, Italy, 2018 (Group Exhibition)
Voices Off Festival - Image Nation Arles, Arles, France, 2018 (Group Exhibition)
Street Sans Fronitères, Paris, France, 2018 (Group Exhibition)
Good Aesthetics go to Heaven No. 3, New York, US, 2018 (Group Exhibition)
The Creator Class Exhibits: Change of Space, Toronto, Canada, 2017 (Group Exhibition)
Sony World Photography Awards & Martin Parr Exhibition, London, UK, 2017 (Group Exhibition)
Photo Plus Expo Exhibition, New York, USA, 2016 (Group Exhibition)
Dino Kuznik ROG, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2016 (Solo Exhibition)
PUBLICATIONS
Investigations in Infrastructure, Subjectively Objective, 2021 (multiple artists)
Everything is Narrative, Subjetcively Objective, 2021 (multiple artists)
Shaped by the West (Third Edition), Dino Kuznik & Photon Gallery, 2021
Magic Hour Photo Book, Booooooom, 2021 (multiple artists)
Creative Voyage, Issue 02, 2021 (mag)
⦁⦁ 05 Dino Kuznik, Setanta Publishing, 2021
Cold Type, Issue 219, 2021 (mag)
Under a Blanket of Stars, Pomegranate Press, 2020 (multiple artists)
Not Me, Us Photo Book, A collaborative global artistic effort for change, 2020
(multiple artists)
T Magazine, Le Temps, 2020 (mag)
Hey Gents, Issue 06, 2020 (mag)
Shaped by the West (Second Edition), Aintbad, 2020
Shaped by the West (First Edition), Aintbad, 2019
Observations in the Ordinary, Subjectively Objective, 2019 (multiple artists)
Chapter Magazine, Issue II - "Concepts", Plastic Media, 2019 (mag)
Lufthansa Magazin, June Issue, Lufthansa, 2019 (mag)
On Vulnerability, Antihero Press, 2019 (multiple artists)
Late Starting Dawn, Pomegranate Press, 2018
M-mag, Issue #5, 2018 (mag)
Metamorphosis, DIY Production, 2016
New Edge Magazine, Issue #5, 2015 (mag)
Ena Rola Filma, Issue #5, 2013 (mag)
PRESS
SELECTED
British Journal of Photography
WRITING
Rubber, Metal, and Glass / GOBE
Creative Portrait Ideas / GOBE
VIDEO & PODCASTS
C41 Podcast with Willem Verbeck
Val 202 - Globalna Vas (Slovenian)
Shaped by the West Exhibition Video Tour
OTHER
Modern Film Archive DpReview Lenscratch Juxtapoz PICTO ❤︎ THE BOWERY British Journal of Photography MISSION Mladina TheWalkman Māgoa Magazine
Subjectively, Objective World Photography Organization Video GOBE The Face Magazine Your Wanted A List Aesthetica Magazine LYFSTYL Artwort Simple Mag Unfaded Studio Edwin Before After Post-Punk Mediterranean Citizen Story Street Photographer Monster Children Pixsoul Magazine Seen Based Istanbul iDAmuse XXZMagazin Mladina Ozon Electru Vandraj Rhythm. Wernt Lumu Siol STAMagazine Feature Shoot M-Mag Mystery Tribune We And The Color
