Workshop led by artist Marta Djourina: Drawing with Light – Scanograms and Luminograms
March 20–21, 2026, Nikole Tesle Street 12, Arts Academy in Split

During the two-day workshop led by artist Marta Djourina, female students explored camera-less photography. On the first day (March 20), participants created scanograms using scanners, experimenting with layering, movement, and digital distortion. On the second day (March 21), they produced luminograms—camera-less images created by directly exposing photographic paper to sunlight. Working with found materials and transparent foils, the participants drew and painted with light.

Marta Djourina (Bulgaria/Germany) explores light in her artistic practice as a subject, a tool, and an object of research. Working with large-format analogue photographic paper, she transforms the photo lab into a performative stage, using various natural and artificial light sources—ranging from bioluminescence to flashlights and lasers—and long exposures to “draw” on the paper’s surface. By combining photographic and painterly gestures, her work balances precision and unpredictability, redefining photography as a physical act and a trace of movement through time.

The workshop was attended by female students of Visual Arts Education and Fine Arts, Painting, Visual Communications Design, Film and Video:
Marija Baselli, Ana Bonacin, Petra Crnjac, Anamaria Crnoja, Lora Cukrov, Nika Grdan, Nina Grebenar, Viktorija Ivelja, Jelena Jurčević, Júlia Macáková, Augustina Maslov Vidaković, Ana Matas, Josipa Nedeljko, Đina Radulj, Antonela Šaban, Leonora Ugrin.

Organisation:
Assist. Prof. (Art) Lana Stojićević, Department of Visual Arts Education and Fine Arts, Arts Academy in Split, and Culture Hub Croatia / PROSTOR

The activity was co-financed by the European Union through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU), within the institutional research project KUZ: Contact – Art in the Community (IP-UNIST-56) of the Arts Academy in Split, the Creative Europe programme (project Craftwork 4.0 All Culture Hub Croatia), and the Culture Moves Europe programme.

Photo: Lana Stojićević

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