Silvia Pogoda

is a photographer, illustrator, columnist. In Slovakia, she completed her PhD in Political Science at Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica. She studied at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic, and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where she lived. For many years she has been living a nomadic life, dividing her time between three countries: Poland, Slovakia and Croatia. In addition to personal projects, she also photographs professionally, creates drawings for magazines, writes texts, and conducts lectures. Her works have been exhibited at numerous individual and collective exhibitions in Serbia, Romania, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland.