Ilija Tomanic Trivundza (b. 1974) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communication Studies and a member of Social Communication Research Centre at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia).
His primary research interest spans across the field of visual communication with special focus on the social and political role of photography in contemporary mediated communication. He specialises in visual and multimodal qualitative research of photographic and visual culture.
His published articles and book chapters focus on visual representations of otherness and collective/national identifications, photojournalism, photographic practices on social media, news framing, theory of photography and history of photography and photojournalism.
Prior to joining University of Ljubljana in 2003, he had worked for three years in telecommunications industry and at Amnesty International Slovenia. He obtained his PhD from University of Ljubljana on the topic of photojournalism and representations of national identity in 2010 under mentorship of prof. Hanno Hardt.
Ilija is a co-editor Membrana: magazine on photography (ISSN: 2463-8501) and has served as President of European Communication Research and Education Association – ECREA (www.ecrea.eu) between 2016 and as association's Vice-President between 2012 and 2016. He was one of the curators of On the other side, a three-part exhibition on the history of Slovenian photoreportage for Jakopic Gallery in Ljubljana (19 January – 19 June 2021).