Virtual Gallery of the Regional Museum Jagodina
Author of the exhibition: Jasmina Trajkov
Biography
He was born in 1959 in Svetozarevo. He had his first encounter with photography as a high school student in 1974, when he joined the school photo section. In the same year, he bought his first camera. He started exhibiting in 1978 as a member of the Photo-cinema club “Čačak”. He was the initiator and one of the founders of the Photo-cinema club “Vuk Karadžić” in Svetozarevo (Jagodina nowdays) at whose exhibitions he regularly exhibited and received awards for his photographs. In 1988, he opened a photography studio in Bagrdan. He was engaged in this work until 1990, when he was employed as a reprophotographer in the “Novi put” printing house. At the beginning of May 2001, he moved to the Regional Museum Jagodina, where he still works as a photographer. He had four independent and participated in about 70 collective photography exhibitions. At the end of the eighties of the last century, within the framework of the Photo-Association of Yugoslavia, he obtained the title of photo-amateur of the 2nd class.
Milosav Brajković has been in the photographic life of Jagodina for almost half a century. Today he is professionally engaged as a museum photographer, while in his twenties and thirties he actively exhibited both within the city photo club, of which he is one of the founders, and at numerous exhibitions in the cities of the former Yugoslavia.
As a high school student, in 1974 he became a member of the photo section at the “Veljko Vlahović” School Center, where he took his first steps in the field of photography. In the same year, he bought his first camera. He continued his studies while studying in Čačak, where he completed a photo and cinema course with the instructors of the Photo-cinema Association of Yugoslavia, Milenko Savović and Dragan Đorđević.
The public was able to see his work for the first time in 1978, when he exhibited at the club exhibition of the Photo-Cinema Club, „Čačak“ of which he was a member at the time. In his hometown he presented his photographs for the first time at the solo exhibition opened at the end of February 1981 at “Radislav Nikčević” public library.
Brajković had a special success at the Tenth Salon of Yugoslav Photography “Mladost ’90” held in May 1990 and organized by the city’s Photo-Cinema Club “Vuk Karadžić”. At this event, he received praise for the most successful photograph on the theme “Youth”, as well as the first individual prize for a slide on the same theme.
During the flood that hit Jagodina in 1999, a large part of Brajković’s photographs were destroyed. At this exhibition, we present part of the preserved works where it is clearly visible that his preoccupation is portrait, that is, that the subject this photographer is mainly interested in is a man. Miša Brajković himself said about why he focused his attention on such a topic: “Portraits or the pictures of a man (and when I say man I mean both masculine and feminine and neuter gender) speak that special language of vitality, warmth, suffering, love, happiness, language of the whole face and eyes, and the eyes are the windows of the soul. To present only landscapes, without the presence of man, would mean the same as presenting a dry tree without life juices. According to me, man is the initiator of all living things.”
Since May 2001, Brajković has been employed as a photographer at the Regional Museum of Jagodina, so his photos are included in numerous editions of the Museum. As a museum photographer, he accompanied and documented numerous events in the city, of which the continuous monitoring of the “Days of Comedy” festival stands out the most.
