Description
Nik Erik Neubauer (1994) is a visual artist and a photographer from Ljubljana. In his work, he deals with the intimate social issues of our everyday life with a contemporary documentary approach. He obtained his master’s degree in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2021. He received multiple awards at the Rovinj Photodays competition (2018, 2020). In 2021, he was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and GUP Magazine named him amongst the most promising European photographers. His photobook You Always Cry Twice When You Go to the South was selected for PhotobookWeek in Aarhus. In 2021 he was awarded a Watchdog award by the Slovenian Association of Journalists for his long-term project of covering anti-government protests in Slovenia. In 2022 he became one of the winners of the Belfast Photo Festival in the photobook section.