![“Jebodrom” [Jaka Babnik]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Jaka-Babnik-Jebdrom-02-670x300.jpg "“Jebodrom” [Jaka Babnik]")
About Jaka Babnik and his Jebodrom series of photographs displayed at Photon in September-October 2014! In his series of photographs Jebodrom, Jaka Babnik deals with contemporary phenomena concerning public spaces by taking the role of an active observer, documentarian and commentator. Jebodrom is a slang term used across the…
![Interiors of Power(lessness) [Bojan Salaj]](https://mihacolner.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Bojan-Salaj-02-670x300.jpg "Interiors of Power(lessness) [Bojan Salaj]")
About the Bojan Salaj‘s Interiors-Correspondences project A few months ago, withing the framework of Photonic Moments festival in Ljubljana, Bojan Salaj mounted a show Interiors-Correspondences dealing with the visual insignia of power. The exhibition consisted of four big-format photographs showing ‘interiors of power’ in a symmetric rectangular formation that…
About a year ago I found and hastily watched a three-hour documentary titled The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010) directed by Andrei Ujica. I was thrilled. The director managed to create something rare and extraordinary: he made an extensive documentary without narration and therefore without any comments. The understanding and…
This text was written for the catalogue of the Copy Paste exhibition which focuses on the practices of re-using found photography in the artistic / photographic context. The exhibition is open from 10 December 2014 to 16 January 2015 at Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography in Ljubljana and will…
Wednesday, 3 December at 7 pm; Mišnica GT22 in Maribor, Slovenia Through the talk Miha Colner will analyse the developments of contemporary war photography that has undergone immense changes over the past two decades. Although the emergence of digital media and internet has enabled immediate creation and sharing of images…
Ulrich Seidl shows (allegedly) the dark side of suburbia The newest film of the notorious Austrian film director Ulrich Seidl is a great collection of unusual images, impressions from the private lives of ordinary people. If only such thing existed. The film actually proves that even the most (allegedly) normal,…
The “Memory Lab: Photography Challenges History” opens in Martin-Gropius-Bau on 16 October 2014 …in frames of 6. Europaische Monat der Fotografie (Berlin) / European Month of Photography network The exhibition explores how do photographers and artists today represent historical events, defining cultural characteristics and the changes they undergo, and social…