Artist Statements:
Ada Hamza
Vernacular photography.
Andraž Gregorič
In 2010 I spent a month in Spain (Barcelona, Tenerife, Alicante). While I was living there I noticed there were a lot of easy going people. It was different than in our country where most of the people are always in a hurry. So I decided to photograph their way of life. I decided to photograph people who know how to enjoy their lives. I took photos of Spanish people where backgrounds of my camera frame were clean and unaggresive . So I was able to get the real filling of “slow life”.
Photography is my job and my hobby. After finishing Secondary School for Design and Photography in 2006 I decided to study photography at The Higher Vocational College in Sežana. I graduated there in 2011. At the graduation I was awarded the title of ‘Photography Engineer’.
http://www.andrazgregoric.com/
http://www.andrazgregoric.com/blog/
Andraž Jenkole
My most frequent photography motive is nature, which calms me and inspires me. My frame is mostly aesthetic and minimalistic. Photography for me is more than work, it is a way of relaxing and traveling into a world that is dreamy.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/andrazjenkole
Borut Sluga
Veselice
This cycle presents Slovenian countryside parties, known as veselice in Slovenian language. Some of folk bands are really big stars in Slovenia and accordion (frajtonerca - diatonična harmonika) is some kind of Slovenian national instrument nowadays. Everybody knows Na Golici song (one of twenty most played songs in the world). Only a few years ago most of young people in Slovenia were ashamed of listening Slovenian folk music or they even hated everything that was connected with accordion. However, things are changing in the last years. People can observe almost a phenomenon; how more and more young people attend countryside parties to sing new folk hits with bands, get signed cd and dance all night like they grandparents did. The phenomenon is even bigger as big part of Slovenian youth learn how to play accordion and are proud of Slovenian folk music. I should add that beside music countryside parties have also an important social note, one can see love stories, drinking and ethnological customs, everything really characterizes Slovenia.
www.borutsluga.com
Ciril Jazbec
I am drawn towards stories that reach out and touch you, making you stop, think and take action in the midst of our ever-changing world. My desire to expand horizons led me to London where I studied MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.
Moved by the story of the disappearing islands of Kiribati, I had endeavored to capture the essence of the place whilst that remains possible. Through encounters with the locals, activists and the President, I address environmental issues and offer a testament to the spirit of the people.
www.ciriljazbec.com /www.kiribatiisgone.com
Darko šemen
In this series I am trying to impersonate experience from the past, from childhood, to the way the memory displays it. Memory has deformed and I am trying to make it a visual shape.
Memory itself fascinate me. The way how it is displayed, how it works, how it is disfigured or is the present who is devastated. I'm interested to see what it feels like to visualize those unexperienced childhood experience, viewed through projection of memory. Experiences in human relationships and sexuality, which are utterance in the forms, sizes, colors. The way how this experience transformed in an adult seeing the image. This series of photographs is not yet completed.
Inspires me to see the unexperience. I love to recreate feeling and the vibrations of a space or point in time. I want to seek the relationship between human beings and the man whit him self. The way the perception of a child is not so tight as the grown-up man who has gone through a process of cultural dressage and castration. With my works I am trying to touch the boundary of cultural structure.
http://thereisnofashioninslovenia.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkosemen/
Dare Sintič
“Here is Johny” from the series Shadow Highlights
The photograph “Here is Johny” is part of the series titled “Shadow Highlights”. Name of the series directly indicates the use of popular color correction tools in order to achieve high dynamic range in digital photography. ?. Both, the idea and realization are analogue: from the sketchbook to Type-C enlarged print. Therefore, the words shadow and highlights represent for me their direct meaning: extremely dark and bright areas of the image and the areas of the artistic creation. Shadow is out there, something that exists in the perception of space as such, on the other hand, Highlights are memories of the Event – the pinnacle, the very light on the image. Theese two words represent two parts of totality. Ying - Yang. The contrast that can be thought as both in the means of production as in conceptual fields of photography. One without another can not create an image.
As a photographer, at the beginning, I stay distant from the subject. I enter the scene in the rhythm that is not mine, but dictated from the event. This approach is, in a way, documentary, but the time and the space are planed beforehand. The sketchbook comes in to play. I lurk, I wait and record on film - no matter what happens.
Goljat Katja
In unbearable haste to taste life’s diversities and through a lot of running about aimlessly, I have found this magic machine, which gave sense to me and brought my life into focus. The magic must have happened in a danish darkroom two years ago. I’m attracted to light like a moth. I’m attracted by its untamable tameness and its manifestations. Painting with light, analogue techniques, old processes, female soul. Loose order makes me feel joy, because it gives way to a chance for spontaneous dimensions within which I’m looking for a new order. I adore this machine! It’s limitedness confronted me with myself and triggered ongoing questioning about the medium itself and about the content of what is captured.
And soon, nothing is real apart from love itself.
http://katjagoljat.carbonmade.com/
Ivica Čendak
With photography I am discovering and getting to know myself. I mostly do self-portraits which I combine with motives from nature. The most important is the story and the author's feelings which are different on each photography.
http://www.facebook.com/ivica.cendak
Kaja Božič
For most of the things in the world there is a biological explanation. As something comes up to the existence, at the end it vanishes. A bond of two bodies, the beginning of something new, a birth, the first breath, a cry, new being. It grows, it develops, it lives. When tis moment domes, it leaves. Logically. However it isn't. Why? Because beyond this, something bigger and stronger exists. It has to exist. The energy of a personality that had been shaped for so many years can not simply dissapear and become equal to zero . This initial point resuled with the Last breath photos. In this series, every participant had a possibility to express himself and to present his imagination of a last breath. Photos on canvas live and breathe independetly as well as the whole universe, aparently unfamiliar and lifeless; they in fact live in harmony with all the present. In themselves they hide a compound record as a witness of the past, with the vision of future signs. Photos are in their essence, left to the laws of fugacity and degradation of the substance, as it is all around us. The power of life that made them seeks for answers about life and death. I follow the steps of many people and listen to their stories. I need them to understand better myself, because every one of them is a part of me, and i am a part of them. Transparent and layerd , they spin around me as ghosts, as a condensed energy that leaves trace on a hard substance.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=100000189829113
http://www.wix.com/kajabzc/kbphotograhpy
Katarina Kokalj
When taking photographs, my favorite motives are the one that resemble the world of dreams or hidden paths of children's imagination, so the photographs I make are often embedded in different images of nature. I catch a floating and passing-by feelings, which gladly take you somewhere else and create stories that are mostly caught in scenes of the landscape or still life; live or inanimated nature. The constant depicts are most likely; lonely trees, branches, crowns, wheat fields, balloons, sea, flowers (and etc...). I draw on from tiny, little moments; everything that accompanies us seamlessly and daily on this crowded, overloaded way of life and can at the same time act as a dreamy, distant or imaginary. All that is visible and also hidden is my inspiration. I also like to exploit the capabilities of modern digital processing; adding pastel color presets, or other color effects, which clearly color all these feelings and emotions, so therefore almost every photograph is basically a result of a longer processing. Although each image quietly tells its own story, I sometimes compose even more photographs within one frame, and consequently I can form more new narrative forms and meanings from combined images. I like to experiment with colors, format and design layout. I rely on natural lightning. People in my photos almost do not occur and, if so, they are usually hiding. I am interested in other areas of photography and in the ability of the medium as such. Favorite approach remains the authorial type of photography*, which allows me to overflow all these instantaneous perceptions in these images that do not disappear in the blink of an eye, but they stay there for a long time.
www.katarinakokalj.carbonmade.com
www.katarinakokaljphotography.tumblr.com
http://katarinakokalj@blogspot.com
Katra Petriček
I am a human being made of many people and every one of them is feeling something different. My photography is therefore often eclectic and mildly schizophrenic, but it tries to tell a story, provide a feeling. It is not real, but it tries to talk to everyone in its own way in order to leave a mark. I am interested in storytelling, the people who tell the stories, thoughts that stay unspoken and impressions that can't be replaced.
http://stripedhouses.tumblr.com/
Klemen Ilovar
Currently I'm studying photography at Academy of fine arts and design in Ljubljana. At the moment I'm working on, eternally on-going project, with everyday photos, taken with small analogue pocket camera. It's about the ritual of taking photos. Like a diary, where I can check where I was, what I was doing.
klemenilovar.com
klemenilovar.tumblr.com
Luka Dakskobler
Photography is my way of telling stories that are overlooked, but important in our global understanding of life and the world around us. I wish to believe it can help people who are part of my stories. Despite the photojournalistic nature of my photography, I find it very important to convey the story’s inherent feelings through motifs or visual characteristics of the image, which is why often the photos are not straight forward, but shot in a way to let the viewer’s imagination, their own feelings and thoughts add content and understanding. Thus the image becomes more personal and heartfelt, which is the driving force of change, solidarity, humanity and help.
www.dax-photo.com
http://andaxsaw.wordpress.com/
http://lukadakskobler.wordpress.com/
Matevž Kosterov
I am fascinated by a human being who is embeded in ther natural or artificial enviroment. I percieve human being, especially woman not only as social, but also a natural being. Like a subject who reflects those thing on wich he can't impact, so he just culverts to it. I devote so much attention to light and architecture. I use architecture as a motif in fashion photography, which has recently become my main dominant area of photography. The visual power is reflected through the clear line of flat architectual components, which dominate the female . She is poured into it as one, but she also retains her autonomy and power. This compliment to woman feels the same in more saturated and playful fashion photographs. I like to free my creativity into spontaneous moments wich reflect the right moment.
On the other side. My careless young photo series wich are mostly captured on film camera reveal a completely different side of my artistic expressions. They are not burdened by composition or technical details, but are more lightly oriented and care free. These series are visually reminiscent of images of a new independent American films.
http://www.kosterov.com
http://pogled.tumblr.com/
Matija Medved
I take photos because I like freezing and capturing beautiful moments of nature or people in time. I am especially drawn to colors and colour harmonies. I find it (colour) very important in my photographs because they express certain feelings and create certain atmospheres. I photograph everyday simple moments and make them look as they are something more than what they appear to be. My aim is to burst certain feelings in the viewer when one is looking at my photographs and I try not to be pretentious in my work.
Matjaž Rušt
In my work I am interested in social injustices that change people's lives
www.matjazrust.com
www.zorye.si
Nika Furlan
Photography is full of stories and feelings from the time without a clock,
filled with moments that you wish to remember.
Is a way to connect in a search of yourself,
with an endless joy of discoveries, that can stop you in the hurry of everyday life.
http://www.celjefokus.si/sl/Nika_Furlan_2/Parts_of_us/
http://www.celjefokus.si/sl/Nika_Furlan_1/Ime_serije/
http://www.celjefokus.si/sl/Nika_Furlan/Nika_Furlan-Koscki/
Nina Rojc
He's in a tub. Water is leaking down his hair. He's not looking. Is he?
I wanted to capture how the absence of his look affects on the presence of him on a picture and what is the relaton between real body and his reflection.
Peter Mrhar
Photography is neither the goal nor the path, it is just a simple way of recording memories for future generations, it`s surrending to all senses, including the state of a pure heart. Photography is true love.
Špela Škulj
Photography has been my interest since childhood, and since then I
have a dualistic attitude toward it. In my work, I balance between two
poles. First, photography as capturing unique moments in time that may
never happen again, and second, photography as the most democratized,
reproductible, duplicatable medium at any moment. Balancing between
the two is where I feel most comfortable.
The subjects of my photographs are interpersonal relationships,
intimacy and personal stories that can be read more widely and carry
the elements of universality. The photographs carry a story of a world
out of reach of those who look at them. They form a bond between the
seen and unseen world.
http://www.spelaskulj.net
http://www.elamei.tumblr.com
Taja Polovšak
I wanted to show eroticism in a way that isn't too obvious but subtle.
It is mysterious and leaves the viewer with the option to interpret the image as he pleases.
The end of the photoshot is marked with fashion, it seems that it took over.
Nevertheless, the most important part remains the power of portraying emotions.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tajap/7196573150/in/photostream
Vladimir Mićković
I like human relations, cinematic imagery and everything. I hope to explore as much as possible trough different media, photography being one of them. I believe everything exists.
http://everythingexists.net
http://behance.net/brightfuture