Joakim Kocjancic
- Joakim Kocjancic (b. 1975, Milan) is a photographer and artist based in Stockholm. He studied painting at the Academies of Fine Arts in Florence and Carrara, and later completed a Master’s degree in Photojournalism at the London College of Communication. Before moving to Sweden in 2006, he lived and worked in several European cities, experiences that continue to inform the way he understands space, proximity and human presence.
- Kocjancic works exclusively with analogue black-and-white photography. His practice is grounded in physical presence and duration; the camera stays with a moment rather than captures it. Grain, contrast and blur arise from time in the world rather than stylization. The photographs are shaped by movement, breath and light — by what occurs before thought formulates it into meaning.
- His photobook Europea (2021), a long-term portrait of everyday life across European cities, was awarded the Swedish Photo Book Prize. In 2024, Kocjancic received first prize in the Gomma Black & White Award, an international award focused on artistic black-and-white photography, organized by Gomma Books, a publisher known for exclusive, high-quality photobook editions and an artist-led, non-commercial approach.
- Kocjancic has exhibited widely across Europe, and his work is represented in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, as well as in private collections internationally. He is currently developing two forthcoming books, Solvarv and Infiore, to be published by L’Artiere.