Srdjan Ilic


Srdjan Ilic is an award-winning photographer from Serbia who worked twenty years for the Associated Press. From 2012 to 2016, he was an executive at Tanjug, a Serbian news agency. He is also head of the Association of Photographers of Serbia. He currently works for Pixell, a photo agency whose head office is located in Zagreb.

Biography

After studying hydrogeology at Belgrade University, Ilic began working for various news media in Serbia starting in 1984. He went on to work for the Associated Press from 1990 until 2010, covering the attempted coup in Russia, the Balkan wars, local parliamentary elections and sporting events. He was wounded three times while doing his job during the various Yugoslav conflicts. Ilic became the CEO assistant for photography at Tanjug in 2012. Since 2016, he works for the Pixell agency, shooting photos in Serbia.
Ilic has a World Press Photo Award for Spot News and a World Press Photo Children's Award. He received both prizes in 1999 during the Kosovo conflict. He has also won two APME-Associated Press Managing Editors Awards, as well as several YU Press Photo awards, from a national photo contest held in Serbia. He has participated in various group photo exhibits, such as a show on contemporary news photography held at the Manhattan gallery Apexart and curated by David Byrne. Other group shows include a Belgrade exhibit on war photography at the Museum of Yugoslav History, as well as another exhibition held in Serbia and initiated by the European Fund for the Balkans. Ilic is married with two children.