Joakim Kocjancic was born in Milan in 1975. Studied painting at the Art Academy in Florence and Carrara in Italy and an MA in photojournalism at LCC, England. Since 2006 he lives in Stockholm where he has exhibited at Gallery Contrast, Double Elvis Gallery and Fotografiska. He is member of the photo agency Linkimage in Stockholm. He has been represented by Galerie Intervalle in Paris from 2014 untill 2018. In 2014, his first monograph "Paradise Stockholm" was published by Journal. The pictures from the series have been shown in Stockholm, Paris, Berlin and Milan.
In recent years he has also published "artist books" with his silver gelatin photographs and with other forms of printing. Through a grant from the Swedish Writer association he spent six months in Cardoso (LU), Italy, photographing the people in the village that resulted in the book “After the flood” published in 2018 by Pacini Editore, Italy.
Europea his second monograph was published by Bokförlaget Max Ström in spring 2020, the book won the prize for the best art book in Sweden 2021, a silver medal at the PhotoFestival in Moscow and the first prize in the documentary category at Rovinj Fotofestival.
Last autumn the Modern museum of Art in Stockholm bought five silver gelatin prints from the series of Europea for their permanent collection.
At the moment Joakim is working on a project about the the Mediterranean coastline and a project about the young life in Bucharest.
