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Miha Colner

contemporary photography

Interview with Ivan Petrović: Photographer, Archivist and Artist

Interview with Ivan Petrović: Photographer, Archivist and Artist

Interview with Ivan Petrović The interview was initially published in the Membrana Magazine No. 3 and Revija Fotografija 76/77 [in Slovene language], a thematic issue entitled Cabinet where contributors looked at archives and uses of vernacular photography in the art making. Ivan Petrović (1973) has been working in the fields…

Photobook: Discipline, Genre or Movement?

Photobook: Discipline, Genre or Movement?

The column on the phenomena of photobook, first published in the catalogue of the Fotoknjiga in fotozin [Photobook and Photozine] exhibition at DobraVaga, Ljubljana. Today, the photobook is a thoroughly institutionalised and canonised discipline in the field of contemporary photography and art, swiftly building its own theoretical apparatus and extensive…

A Woman with a Photo Camera [Breda Beban]

A Woman with a Photo Camera [Breda Beban]

Transcript of the lecture given by Miha Colner at Studio Tommaseo / Trieste Contemporanea, in Trieste, on 21 April 2017 / originally published in a publication Breda’s Lesson. In the following talk I will present and analyse some of the most distinctive and significant photographic works of Breda Beban. Her…

Ongoing Struggle and Inevitable Pride

Ongoing Struggle and Inevitable Pride

About the exhibition entitled Vigilance, Struggle, Pride: Through Her Eyes at Maribor Art Gallery (19 January-11 March 2018) curated by Marina Paulenka and produced by Društvo za evropsko zavest, Maribor; Organ vida, Zagreb; Fotoklub Maribor; Österreichische Gesellschaft für Kinderphilosophie, Graz; KuBiPro, Berlin; E@I, Bratislava. Nowadays a large part of population…

Notes to Independence

The article entitled Notes to Independence was initially published in the catalogue of Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere, Finland, which was focusing on different notions of independence.   The human world, like that of many other living species, is undoubtedly hierarchical and structured in a particular social pyramid. This is a…