Jovana Obradovic is a Serbian-born photographer and visual storyteller based in New York. With over 18 years of international experience, her practice spans commercial photography, personal art projects, and fine art work. After beginning her career in publishing in the Middle East, she transitioned toward more intimate, human-nature centered storytelling through freelance work in New York.
Her artistic journey is a pilgrimage of self-discovery, exploring the spaces between opposing forces, softness and structure, freedom and limitation, the organic and the constructed. Through attention to details, gestures, and textures, she reflects on the subtle relationships between people, place and the natural world. Her goal as an artist is to evoke a visceral response and stir the spirit, bridging the gap between the tangible and intangible, while reflecting a sensitivity to interconnectedness and care capturing the small gestures that nurture life and community, and inviting viewers to notice the extraordinary in everyday moments and the quiet rhythms that shape them.
During my two-week solo residency, I want to treat the time as a period of quiet immersion - allowing the place, its rhythms and its relationships to guide the work, rather than arriving with a fixed outcome.
Working with photography and short-form video, I’ll focus on the ecosystem of Hektor and its surroundings - the land, animals, gestures of care, daily routines and the in-between moments that often go unnoticed. I’m drawn to how ideas like interconnectedness, coexistence and respect for all living beings are expressed through everyday actions, not as concepts but as something lived.
I also feel a strong pull to extend this observation across the island - to spend time with its landscapes and natural rhythms, and to sense what connects them. Lanzarote’s volcanic ground carries a quiet intensity - a force of both creation and destruction - and I’m interested in how that presence is felt, subtly, across different environments and moments.
The work will unfold slowly, shaped by attention to light, texture, sound and timing - observing relationships between human and animal, body and landscape, effort and rest. Rather than directing the process, I want to follow what naturally calls my attention and stay close to the quieter moments where meaning reveals itself.
This time is also a space for reflection - to sit with what these experiences open up and what they leave behind. I’m interested in working in a simple, intuitive way, allowing room for spontaneity, presence and not knowing.
