- IVO PERVAN -

"Colours of Croatia"

Photography Exhibition

Royal College of Art, London

17-23 October 2005

(17th October by invitation only;

to register for the opening evening please send your details here)

Come and enjoy

the week-long exhibition of

Croatia's most famous photographer.

Biography

Ivo Pervan was born in 1947 in Split, Croatia. He took up photography while in high school, in modest circumstances that nevertheless never hindered his creative energy. He has been working independently since 1990.

His photographs can be found in many tourist publications (guidebooks, posters, postcards, reviews), photo monographs, as a book illustrations, featured as individual and collaborative work.

He has published 17 and co-published 60 photo monographs while maintaining a high number of exhibitions.

His work on the cultural wealth of Croatia is highly sought after, as the cultural and natural heritage are his primarily interests. This is of vital importance at a time when human negligence, and very often lack of funds, results in the disappearance of numerous natural treasures. He is the author of photographs within the framework of the Gajeta Falkusa project of the Ars Halieutica society.

His posters have won seven prizes in world competitions and other prestigious international awards (Prague, Copenhagen, Karlovy Vary…). One of the posters, "Split", has brought to a newly independent Croatia its first international award in 1992 in Vienna. Ivo Pervan has exhibited all over the world (USA, South Africa, France, Chile, Portugal, Germany, Poland …) and represented Croatia in both EXPO-1998 (Lisbon) and EXPO-2000 (Hanover) in the national pavilions.

He has a slide collection of approximately 100,000 slides, which represent a great treasure in both an actual and a documentary sense. New projects include photo monographs of the city of Zagreb, the island of Hvar, the island of Vis and the Pakleni Islands.