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Case Study on Vernacular Photography

Case Study on Vernacular Photography

The Doubles project that displayed works of Ljubljana based artists Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi was initially shown at DLUL Gallery, Ljubljana in frames of Month of Photography in Ljubljana. The joint project entitled Doubles showcases photography by Noemi Veberič Levovnik and Arven Šakti Kralj Szomi. Duality,…

Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]

Monumental Landscapes [diSTRUKTURA]

The text was initially written for the Face to Face show by artist group diSTRUKTURA at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography (Ljubljana) in 2009. The artistic practice of the group diSTRUKTURA (Milan Bosnić & Milica Milićević) is stretched across various creative approaches depending on the medium and on the…

Violence, Death and Decay [Goran Bertok]

Violence, Death and Decay [Goran Bertok]

The essay was written for the Body and Flesh exhibition by Goran Bertok at Photon Gallery in Brotfabrik Wien, Vienna [authors: Miha Colner & Jasna Jernejšek] The Body and Flesh exhibition presents the distinctive body of work of an artist who, over the past 25 years, has relentlessly explored themes…

Photography as Testimony of Time and Space

Photography as Testimony of Time and Space

The essay was written in 2012 for the publication of the Aftermath. Changing Cultural Landscape project that displayed and analysed tendencies of engaged contemporary photography on the territory of former Yugoslavia after its break-up. The publication is available as e-book at Photon online bookshop and the content is partially available…

Documents of Time and Space [Branko Lenart]

Documents of Time and Space [Branko Lenart]

About photographer Branko Lenart and his two significant series of photographs: Styrians (1970-1974) and Augen:Blicke (2002) which were published (in Italian and German language) in the book entitled Sguardi sulla Styria and exhibited at the Sale Esposotive della Provincia C. so Garibaldi in Pordenone, Italy (16 September – 10 November…

Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]

Few Miles of the History of Cyprus [Stelios Kallinikou]

About the Lady’s Mile series of photographs (2014-2015) by the Cypriot artist and photographer Stelios Kallinikou The project was part of the group show Borderlines at The House of Cyprus in Athens in frames of Athens Photo Festival 2015. There is a certain affinity among contemporary photographers to record and…

Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]

Confronting the Death… Again [Goran Bertok]

A introductory text for Goran Bertok‘s exhibition Survivors that took place in January 2013 at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic” Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin Wars, states of emergency and continuing repression are immense breeding places for the pogroms…