 A photographer by profession, an architect by education, a painter by vocation, Dragoljub Zamurović has been expressing his knowledge and talents for several decades already through photographs that represent both a document and an artwork. In his latest book Serbia – The Danube Basin – (he says every book is a solo exhibition of paintings) – Zamur publishes photographs of the great river that flows through about 20 European countries and up to 90 percent of the territory of Serbia belongs to its watercourse. Zamurović has taken photos of the Danube, its riverbanks, people living along the Danube, the habitats of rare plants and animal species, its tributaries and watercourse, its canals, fishponds, woods and rural communities. He has worked on preparation of the book for a full three years and took 280,000 shots. The majority of them were taken from the special balloon bought in Spain and equipped with an engine, which is an enterprise that placed his name in the aviation encyclopedia. He mounted the engine, he said, to be able steer the balloon wherever he wanted to, so as not to depend on the wind. The book in the Serbian, Russian, English, French and German languages will be released from the printing shop on September 15th: the publisher is ART Zamur, the Author’s Art Atelier and ULUPUDUS (Association of Fine and Applied Artists of Serbia), the editor is Dobrila Lošić, captions by Bogdan Ibrajter and introduction texts by Raša Popov who in the text Danube in its Mature Phase, says:
 "For Dragoljub Zamurović, a hovering photo-artist, the Danube is an inexhaustible source of beauty and of an amazing life. He takes a picture of the fortress near Ram because it is unknown. He doesn’t take pictures of well-known sights. His sunsets are seen for the first time."
At daybreak above the Danube he will see the unbelievable and undreamed-of flocks. On the Danube he will chance upon cattle breeders driving livestock to pasture on the river islet, ada, - cattle swim with only their horns sticking out from water.
When he finds boats they will be strangely grouped, like fish.
Unknown and mysterious he will discover in the canals of the Danube, on dunes with the sea gulls and one sandbank that resembles a giant foot. The advantage has always been on the side of a sight that is not a mechanical reproduction of trite reality, but draws one along to beauty as created by the painter’s imagination.
The people of the Danube are in the centre of master’s curiosity. He takes pictures of day laborers that appear as minuscule ants on the endless beds of cultivated plane. Having such huge work before them we feel them as lost sufferers. In some other pictures we will be surprised by fields shown as mighty parallepipeds…
This pleiad of the beauty of Danube will show us that the Danube is stunning and noble in its whole flow through our country. There, the Danube is the most mature both as river and as an esthetic phenomenon. It passes through woods, plains and mountains to reach its majestic gorge."
Dragoljub Zamurović (1947) graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and completed his post-graduate studies of photography at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Belgrade. For his photographs he has been awarded all over the world. He is the author of several monographs among which are Gypsies of the World, Kazakhstan, Kazan, Serbia, Life and Customs, Vojvodina, Sarajevo, Montenegro, the photo-type edition of the "Sarajevo Haggadah" … He holds the title of Distinguished Artist awarded by ULUPUDUS that places him among several of the most renowned artists of Serbia’s photography today.
Under the pseudonym Art Zamur, he has been cooperating with the French Agency Gamma Press Image, through which his photographs has been presented in the leading world’s magazines like Time, "Newsweek", New York Times, Stern, Paris-Match, National Geographic… The celebrated American magazine "Life" published his photographs twice in its Big Pictures feature and, in 1991 ran one of his photos on its cover. | 
