Croatian presidential elections – campaign for Ivo Josipović
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.
Client: SDP - Ivo Josipović
Agency: Bruketa & Žinić
Production: Komakino
Photography: Ciril Jazbec
Assistant: Uroš Žuraj
January 23rd, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Wow, zakon
ful so mi vsec fotke, se posebi tista v avtu. 
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Me veseli Aleš!
January 23rd, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Ciril… tole je pa res prvovrstno! Bravo!!! Mislim, da je to tudi eden izmed tvojih najboljših projektov, ne samo “norih”. Takih hudih emocij… A potem sva zmenjena, da me fotkaš, ko kandidiram za predsednika?
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Uau, kakšno presenečenje!
Med kampanjo sem večkrat razmišljala prav o teh fotografijah, zdaj pa ugotovim, kdo je za njimi. Super!
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:42 pm
Great work Ciril!! I really like the feeling in the photos.
Super fotke :)!!
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Aleš: That’s a deal!
Hvala.
Eva: Hvala za lep komentar. Je bil prav kul filing imeti fotografije po celotni Hrvaški.
Juš: Thx mate!
January 24th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Super Ciril! Res so dobre fotke! Še lepš je pa vidt hrvaško-slovensko prijateljstvo!
Uživaj!
January 24th, 2010 at 6:14 am
UUUAAAAUUUU , norooooo , čestitam, fotke so mi pa več kot všeč !
January 24th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Really great work, my friend, great! Excllent picturs and very nice colours. Have a nice day.
January 24th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Hvala!! Thank you! Žiga: Prav res! En večer smo skupaj z Ivotom prepevali slovenske pesmi…Siva pot…
January 25th, 2010 at 2:41 am
res kapo dol. odlično. kje so meje
zate in za vas očitno ne obstajajo. way to go.
pa ne rečt, da nimaš nobene fotke njegove lepe hčerke
January 25th, 2010 at 4:33 pm
woo to je defenitivno velik korak za tebe! Res zakon fotke! Ciril is going international;)
January 25th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
Hvala! Uroš: Žal je nisem niti srečal…smo bili večinoma na poti.
January 26th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
UAU!!! Rock in Roll!!!
Odličen projekt! Fotke so tudi super. Mislim super za to kar so naročniki hoteli. Ne morejo biti boljše. Si predstavljam, da si imel še tričetrt tone dobrih fotk, ki pa jih ne bo PR spustil v življenje. Tudi sam spremljam Pahorja, a kot novinar se držim na distanci in ne morem PR material delati. Sem pa za ta Emzinov natečaj oddal 10 portretov Pahorja. Z večino ziher njegov PR ne bo zadovoljen. Bom objavil na svojem blogu še ta teden in bo zanimivo primerjat fotke
first finger vs. second echo
Skratka še enkrat čestitke za to kampanijo.
B5
January 26th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
pravzaprav second echo preimenujem v press finger
January 30th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Vedno znova me presenetiš, prov tist, k ne bi mogl bit bol narjen. Lahko rečm da si moj uzornik
:):)
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:25 pm
ČEstitke, BRAVO Ciril, super fotke in res huge step for you. Za mene si CAR!!!!!!
čau
February 4th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
Hvala vsem!
June 16th, 2010 at 5:20 pm
Thank you for creating very professional photographs. I am very impressed by your efforts and it’s truly unique.
I am genuinely interested in world politics since my school days; the fact is from the age of 16 years, I am corresponding with Heads of State & Heads of Government & other statesmen freelance, on key issues relevant to my country & other developing countries, as well as taking a good effort to enhance & promote reputation of Sri Lanka. In this case, I take the opportunity of National Day of each country for corresponding and forward illustrated treatises carrying messages of National Day felicitations by general post as well as via electronic post.
I copied your photographs to my computer as I wish to prepare an illustrated treatise that would be inserted with your photos and addressed to His Excellency Prof. Ivo Josipović, President of the Republic of Croatia, on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of Statehood Day of Croatia which falls on 25th June 2010.