dijana muminovic

I am a Bosnian-American photojournalist living in Athens, Ohio. I moved to the USA from Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997 after the Bosnian war, and subsequently earned a BA in Photojournalism from Western Kentucky University and Master’s Degree at Ohio University.

I work as a Teaching Assistant at OU, and as an instructor at the Athens Photographic Project to those who use photography as a tool to cope with mental illnesses. Every year at OU, I helped organize NPPA Best of Photojournalism judging contest.

I was apponted to the general secretaryship for FIJET BiH—Bosnian Association of Travel Journalists, and for the past two years, I worked for Pipsqueak Productions, LLC, promoting human rights for Sanela Diana Jenkins Foundation.

In 2011, I had the honor to organize and host the American workshop, Truth With A Camera, in my hometown Zenica, Bosnia. In 2013, I was awarded 2nd place for the Alexia Foundation with my project Beneath My Land, which allowed me to complete my book, Secrets of Lake Perucac. It focuses on the lake where 3000 people were killed and hundreds were thrown in the river in 1992 and found twenty years later. As a result, my work was exhibited in the US Congress Building and Western Kentucky University.

In 2012, I freelanced for The Athens News. That same year, I was a finalist for the PhotoPhilantrophy Activist Award. I’ve also been awarded two grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women; supported by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in Sarajevo, Zaka Khan Foundation New York, Bob Baxter Scholarship, and recently the NPPA and OU awarded me with a grant to document the aftermath of the flood that recently swept away Bosnia.