Balkan postcards / 2010-08-22
Velenje (Slovenia)
Velenje (Slovenia)
Lanna & Ana, Velenje (Slovenia)
Dol pri Hrastniku (Slovenia)
Kal (Slovenia)
Inside the mountain hut, Kal (Slovenia)
Bas, Kal (Slovenia)
Domen of Icarus Down in the band's rehearsal studio, Podkraj (Slovenia)
Podkraj (Slovenia)
Bas, Solin (Croatia)
Lokrum island, Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Ivona, Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Ćevapi, Herceg Novi (Montenegro)
Bas at Boka Kotorska (Montenegro)
Partisan monument, Žabljak (Montenegro)
Žabljak (Montenegro)
The son's room, Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Prozor (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Hrastnik (Slovenia)
In the train to Ljubljana (Slovenia)
What should a photographer be doing during summer holidays? Take photographs, of course. But after another whirlwind year at the academy it was time to clear my thoughts and photographs things and people that have triggered me to do so. It was a good way to remind myself what makes me a photographer.
So – here they are. My personal postcards from ex-Yugoslavian places I so eagerly wanted to see this summer.
Getting Lucky in Amsterdam / 2010-08-12
You're getting lucky - invitation
From the series 'Becoming 30'
Truus van de buren (The neighbours' Truus)
Here it is…
My first gallery presentation in hip & I-wannabe-an-artist-too Amsterdam. You are most welcome to come and have a chat with me on Friday, 13th August from 20:13 on. For a modest price you will be also be able to buy two of my recent photographs.
This group exhibition will be open for the 13 days to come. Here’s the location.
See ya!
Mostar / 2010-08-08
Mostar bridge, BiH
I guess I visualised this picture even before leaving for the Balkans. Local lads jumping from the bridge deep down into the green Neretva river. Actually, this bloke was just showing off by standing on the edge, helping to collect money. When they gathered around € 50 in a hat, another man took his place and plunged himself off the bridge. Gracefully, the good old way. Precisely as I remember from old documentaries and postcards.
The Balkans / 2010-08-01
Herzegovinian landscape with Prozor
Travelling through the Balkans is a mental workout. Balkan countries have so many different visual impulses and different traditions that it is better not to define it rationally. The Balkans is irrational.
In the weeks to come I will be trying to bite through my pictures and post some more on my blog.
Tourist spotting / 2010-07-13
Cathedral square, Utrecht
I have a strange love-hate relationship with pensioners on holiday. They are doing exactly what a respectable tourist should be doing. They are quite predictable, actually. But this sort can also be brutal, doing everything to be the first in the line in order to make a good picture, or rushing past a ticket office because there is so much to see in so little time.
The thing is, I am acting as a non-tourist, doing everything not to behave as them. But actually I am a just snob, still taking in the delights of all the regular tourist attractions.