Eva Sajovic is a Slovenian photographer who lives and works in London. She works on different projects with socio-documentary themes. She works in collaboration with the individual subject, revealing personality through images and words as a counter to negative social stereotypes.
Sajovic has been working with Traveller communities for the last two years her most recent project being Pavee Widen (Travellers Talking) a book of photographs and texts made in collaboration with Roma, Irish Travellers and English Gypsies in the London Borough of Southwark and STAG (Southwark Travellers Action Group).
With support from the Arts Council England and 198 Arts and Learning Gallery she put up an exhibition and associated events at the 198 gallery entitled Be-Longing.
In June 2010 she was commissioned by the GRTHM to curate the Holocaust Against Sinti and Roma and Present Day Racism exhibition at the Arts Pavilion in London.
She has been invited to participate in the 2nd Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2011.
In 2007 Sajovic won a merit in the Slovenian Ethnographic Museum’s Photographic Awards, and a D&AD award for photography; and has exhibited her work extensively, both in the UK and abroad.
At present she is an Associate lecturer at Saint Martins College of Art & Design.
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