Marina Kelava

Marina Kelava (Bjelovar, 1980) works as a freelance journalist and photographer based in Zagreb, Croatia. She is one of the founders of one of the most influential Croatian nonprofit media, internet magazine H-Alter.org, where she worked for years as an Executive Editor, Journalist and Photographer. Since October 2016 she has been working as a freelancer with focus on topics relating to environment, climate change, development, common goods, nature, migrations, etc. In 2014 Kelava received Velebitska Degenija Award for environmental journalism from Croatian Journalists' Association for Environmental Journalism, and in 2016 she won Marko Polo Award for travel writing, also from Croatian Journalists' Association.

As a photojournalist, she participated three times in the best of journalistic photography in South-Eastern Europe exhibition organized by Serbian news agency BETA. She held a few photography exhibitions in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and participated in many joint exhibitions.