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""Dean Golja"" (born 16 December 1960, Melbourne) is an Australian fine art photographer and multimedia artist.

Golja completed a Fine Arts degree at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Arts in 1982 and a Master of Electronic Arts (multimedia) at the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology at the Australian National University. He has worked as a freelance documentary photographer for many national and international publications. Sponsorship from the renowned camera company Leica has enabled him to travel extensively throughout Europe and the Asia-Pacific, to regions as far-reaching as Guatemala. This has resulted in a contrasting array of work that has developed into numerous exhibitions both in Australia and Europe.

Since 1998 Golja's creative pursuits have expanded into the fields of multimedia and computer animation and focused on collaborations with music composers. This work has been featured in festivals such as the Zagreb Biennale in 1999 and the Adelaide Festival in 2000.

Golja’s recent collaborative works include:

2000 Commission: The Adelaide Festival, 2000. Pascal’s Sphere. A video work to accompany the performance by Canadian ensemble Le Nem of the music of Mary Finsterer.

1999 Netherlands Opera Company. To document rehearsals and performance of world Premiere event, Writing to Vermeer. Exhibition: Leica Gallery, Solm, Germany. Ascension and Descend. Photographic/Mixed Media work for December, 2000. Festival of Contemporary Arts, Canberra. The Notional Portrait. A web art project. Collaboration with other visual artists. Commission: ANU Gallery. A series of photographs for the national touring exhibition of group show What John Berger saw. Commission: Zagreb Biennale, 1999. A collaboration with composer Mary Finsterer for an audio/visual work Door in the wall. Funded by the Australia Council, Leica.

1998 Touring Exhibition: Photographed. A collaboration with Croatian artist, Boris Cvjetanovic. Funded by The Ian Potter Foundation, Leica, Ernst & Young, Ministry of Culture, Zagreb, Croatian Heritage Foundation, Zagreb. Presented - by the Nextwave Festival at Span Gallery in Melbourne- May, 1998. - by the Croatian Embassy at the High Court of Australia- October. - by the Croatian Heritage Foundation. Zagreb, Rijeka, Zadar, Dubrovnik Feb. to May, 1999.