There is only one printed magazine in Slovenia, that focuses exclusively on marketing – Marketing Magazin. Working for the magazine pretty much means you get to meet most of the great people in that field. And that’s what I love – taking photos of people who love their job and are good at it. Being a regular collaborator on Marketing Magazin resulted in a very nice collection of such photos. Here are my favourite ones, recently done for MM. You can see more of them in the printed edition. Oh, and don’t just look at the photos – the magazine is a great read, too!
Croatia, our neighbour country, was having presidential elections about two weeks ago. Bruketa&Žinić, a great croatian advertising agency, approached the team behind First-Finger.com, a project I’m involved with. They liked our work, and in the end invited me to collaborate on the campaign they were doing for Ivo Josipović, a presidential candidate of SDP political party. It’s not everyday you get to photograph a (possible) president, so I gladly accepted.
The job included a photoshoot for all the materials (billboards, posters etc.) as well as following and photographing Ivo Josipović for 15 days, during his months-long tour around Croatia. With great people on the team, there was no way the photos could turn out anything else but great! To say that it was an amazing experience would be an understatement. This was simply my craziest project ever – in a very positive way!!
Ivo Josipović WON, so in the end I really did get to photograph a president! I am going to publish photos from following and photographing Ivo Josipović in next weeks.
I spent the last days of 2009 in London. Here’s a series of photos from that vivid city. Each was shot using a 35mm lens, which is fast becoming my favourite, together with my 50mm. Each new year is also an opportunity for new plans and ideas. I’m thinking of enrolling in the College of communication and getting my Master’s degree in Photojournalism and Documentary photography.
Yesterday, as I was driving home from Ljubljana, I saw a line of people with torches. The sight reminded me of the traditional torch-lit night march in the forrest of Udinboršt, organised each year by »Pod Krivo jelko« (»Under the crooked fir tree«) cultural-tourist society. Something I have heard about, but never attended. I immediately decided to change that and also photograph the event. So this year I went - together with my sister Katarina, who also has a photographic blog.
A lot of snow has fallen in the days before the march. And as the torches were lit, everything began to spark and glitter in the glow of the flame. It was like taking a walk through an enchanted forrest! As the story goes, a large crooked fir tree used to grow in the middle of the Udinboršt forrest. In the 18th century, the tree was the meeting place of bandits and outlaws. And underneath that tree they crafted their plans for their wicked ways. And that’s where we were headed! Unfortunately, the fir tree is now gone, but nevertheless, as we reached the place where it used to grow, the march felt like a living fairytale!
I tried to capture that feeling in the photographs. I’m pretty satisfied with them. I also included one photo by Katarina in the series – the 8th picture is hers.
I am certainly coming back next year!
Edit: as was noted in the comments, the tree was a meeting place for army deserters (meaning they did not want to serve in the French army), and they also had women and children in their ranks. So while they were robbers, they were also a community and they did play their part during the French occupation, fighting against the french soldiers. Just so I don’t distort history.
I’ve already posted a few photos from my August trip to Thailand. Now there’s a new gallery on my website, with more pictures from my visit to that amazing country. Check them out on my website. And don’t forget to view them in full-screen! Most of the pictures were shot in and around the city of Chiang Mai, about 700km north of Bangkok. Also, if you like or even fall in love with a particular photo in the gallery, prints are available. Drop me an email, I’ll be happy to give you more information.
Let me say a big thank you to all of you following and commenting on my blog! I wish you all a very happy New Year, and may your next 365 days be full of colours and good light!
Slovenian advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi invited me to collaborate with them on a project for Telemach, one of the largest slovenian providers of internet and digital TV. The brief: five different motives with a well-known slovenian actress Tjaša Železnik. Telemach is coming out with some improved services, so they wanted each of the five motives to represent that. Working with Tjaša was great, I really enjoy the photoshoot - it was both fun and productive. I am very satisfied with the end result, the boys and girls at Saatchi&Saatchi did a great job at turning the photos into print ads. One of the advertisements will hit the media in January, so I can’t publish it quite yet. But I really enjoy seeing the rest of these ads in action!
I have visited Thailand in August. It was a vacation but of course I have taken many photos for myself. Here is a selection of my favourite pictures. There will be few more and in full screen resolution on my web site very soon. Thailand is an amazing country with very nice and beautiful people. Enjoy and stay tuned for new updates!
The work I did together with advertising agency ImeldaOgilvy recently received some special recognitition – it was selected as the Print Ad for the Week by Luerzer’s Archive! Luerzer’s Archive is an advertising publication dedicated to selecting and showcasing the best creative advertising from all over the world. It is currently celebrating it’s 25th anniversary – it feels great to have your work acknowledged by a publication that has seen so many years of advertising!
The print ad for Pattex glue brand features an elderly couple that seems to be stuck together for ages – glue, anyone? The pair were really nice to work with. It’s always great fun when you have patient and cooperative models at the set ! And of course congratulations to the whole team at ImeldaOgilvy for coming up with the award-winning concept.
Dan Ljubezni (aka Day of Love) is a new, if not the first, Slovenian online comedy show following two entirely different individuals through their daily lives and experiences with the opposite sex. It is being made by two young filmmaking groups (dsjcrew.com / knpro.si) with a lot of experience behind them. Thinking that the national and commercial TV in Slovenia doesn’t have what it takes to make quality comedy shows, they decided to step in and do the job with the power of internet and social networking for distribution and promotion.
I am going to publish photos from following and photographing Ivo Josipović in next weeks.
