Yuri Dojc

Yuri Dojc (born 1946 in Humenné, Slovakia) is one of Canada's most celebrated photographers.

In 1968, when Russian tanks were rolling into his native Czechoslovakia, Yuri’s status as a “summer student” in London, England was amended to “refugee”. A year later he chanced to walk by the Canadian consulate which looked friendly and welcoming and so, with dreams of freedom and opportunity, Dojc eventually landed in Toronto with $6.00 in his pocket.

Three decades later, Dojc has become a major player on the photographic stage. Yuri’s clients are distinguished ad agencies and designers throughout North America. He is renowned for his bold, dramatic commercial work, his whimsical American Dreams series and his sensitive black and white personal studies, a collection of which is published in a book, Marble Woman. When L’espresso, an Italian magazine, decided to create a series of books called Eros e Fotografia, they selected Yuri as one of the artists along with Robert Mapplethorpe, David Lachapelle, Man Ray, and Bill Brandt.

Yuri is a popular juror, and speaker at international photographic events. His fine art posters and prints grace the walls of private collectors and galleries around the world including a collection at the Canadian Contemporary Museum of Photography in Ottawa.

Dojc's " 'Across the Ocean 2' dazzled Kosice this September. The show was an authorial thematic selection of activities, wide-frame shots on canvas recording almost 30 years of Dojc's photographic work.

"Dojc is one of the hundred best photographers in this field in the world," said Maria Miskova of VOS (Vihorlat Education Centre)in Humenne, Slovakia.

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