Prison Poetrees (RS)

Igor Čoko was born in Knin in 1975. He lives, works and creates in Belgrade. In terms of education, he is a graduate ethnologist and anthropologist. From the perspective of a visual anthropologist through photography he documents the life of the street and dysfunctional, marginal welfare groups and individuals. He has written the e-book editions Subversive Aesthetic of the Street – Scenes of an Opulent Reality, City with no colours and Behind Bars: the Life of Convicts in the District Prison in Belgrade. He is preparing the edition Karaburma, my ghetto. He has exhibited at home and abroad.

Maestral, a poet with experience, has a winter break and big holiday from school, lives and works in Belgrade. He has had a lot of prizes for poetry; in 2010, 2011 and 2014 he won the first prize at the Desanka Maksimović International Festival for Offender Creativity in Valjevo Correctional Facility. As representative of Serbia he took part in the International Exhibition of Offender Creativity in Brussels in 2015.