Monika Rusak

Monika Rusak has been a collaborator on the Female Correspondence Project since the beginning. She is the person behind the camera, responsible for photographing all the prints and preparing the photos for publication. Monika created the animation for the Female Correspondence web site from scratch, writing the concept, photographing and editing the video, with a little help from her sister Mateja, as well as some suggestions from Tihana and Gloria.

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Monika was born in Varaždin (Croatia), in 1991. She completed primary and secondary school in her hometown and continued her education through undergraduate studies in Multimedia, Design and Application at the University North. Wanting to expand her knowledge of photography, video processing and graphic design and perfect her newly acquired skills, she continued her graduate studies in Media Arts and Practice at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka under the mentorship of Nadija Mustapić and Ingeborg Fülepp, obtaining the academic title of Master of Media Arts and Practice in 2015. Her graduate work, as well as her debut, documentary-experimental film "Forever" was shown in numerous film festivals. After graduating from university, in search of permanent employment, she worked as a photographic and textile designer in the company Grafko-Caspar d.o.o., then as a digital operator (retoucher) in the company Calzedonia. Her field of work is photography, film art, scanography, sound and graphic design, and she loves to connect and experiment in the media in which she works. She is a member of HDLU Varaždin and the Film and Creative Studio VANIMA. She lives and works in Varaždin, where she recently opened her own business.