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BORUT PETERLIN, a Slovenian photographer in a rabbit hole of photography
Portrait of Lučka Kajfež Bogataj
For Mladina I portrayed Lučka Kajfež Bogataj. She is a true authority on the field of climatology and study of climate change. She is a part of IPCC team from Geneva. Their team with Al Gore received a Nobel Prize for peace in 2007. Journalist Staš Zgonik made an interview with her. It was really [... 0% 0% Zadnji zapisi v blogu "BORUT PETERLIN, a Slovenian photographer in a rabbit hole of photography"
0% 0% links 12/2008 WORLD PRESS PHOTO deadline is 15/01/2009. By this date imgese should already be in Amsterdam.If you intend to send images by Internet, then you need to apply for username and password until Friday 9th! Days Japan has also a great competition open. Images have to be in Tokyo until January 15th! Model Release Forms - Getty made [... 0% 0% Happy new day in Boratkini!!! If dr. Kneipp would know that his therapy is so much more effective with Boratkini! PS: This is last year’s post on dr. Kneipp in Republic Dolenjska. 0% 0% THE REAL advantage of digital photograph... The real advantage of digital photography vs. black and white analog photography is that you can transform darkroom into sauna! 0% 0% Picture of the year of Mladina weekly I’m glad that Mladina chosen my picture to be that picture of the year. On it Minister Zver shows Prime Minister Janša and Minister Virant results of elections on Parlamentarial elections 2008 in Slovenia, where they have lost it. This was a moment nobody was expecting. Prime Minister Janša was not only expecting victory, [... 0% 0% A picture sold post-mortem by DRR As we all know digitalrailroad was liquidated three weeks after I payed 600 USD of yearly subscription. Few days ago I received an email from Capstone Global Library, where they bought my image above, but DRR got liquidated before they managed to pay, so I could invoiced them for licensing the image. For usual [... 0% 0% Art B5 podcast, guest Jean-Christophe Co... HERE is a podcast ART B5 on photography. Guest Jean-Christophe Couet. This time I host Jean-Christophe Couet, a well known person on my blog. We studied together @ Famu, Prague, then @ Fabrica, Treviso and now he lives and works in Brooklyn. His work in Georgia won him a lot of recognition among others also [... 0% 0% Bojan Radovič - requestioning photograp... Bojan Radovič is one of the most interesting contemporary photographers in Slovenia. Yesterday there was an opening in Simulaker Gallery. With his work he is constantly requestioning photography as a medium. My favorite work of his is a wall on which a picture was hanging for decade or more. After this long period a trace [... 0% 0% Jure Engelsberger, an illustator, graphi... In last issue of Mladina 52/2008 we are writing about Jure Engelsberger. Here is a portrait of him. We thought that I would do a photographic portrait and he would draw a self-portrait and we would publish it along side each other. Then Jure suggested that he would intervene in the photograph and I thought [... 0% 0% New stage in building our house A week later all the walls in a basement are made. 0% 0% Funeral of Božidar Dolenc Today was a funeral of Božidar Dolenc he was great photographer and I have respected him a lot. I loved his picture series 1+1=1 and his documentation of underground in 80’s. He was a master of transforming a gray everyday into true poetry in photography. 0% 0% DJ Borka New Striptiz portrait DJ Borka, portraited for Mladina’s Stripitz rubric as a contrast to popular IPod fashion. 0% 0% New cover page of Mladina weekly It wasn’t that simple as it looks like. I had to shoot this cover page in the evening, but I was too tired, so I got up around 5am and work on it for an hour. It wasn’t good and I redo it in editorial of Mladina. My schedule for that day collapsed and caused [... 0% 0% Alco-action in Ljubljana ALCO - ACTION in merry December PS: I have too much stuff to blog about, but because of complexity of posts and a lack of time, I don’t blog. 0% 0% New Stripitz portrait of Tomaž Grom For Mladina’s Stripitz portrait I did a portrait of Tomaž Grom . At the end of this week he will have a performance in Mestni muzej. When we talked about his performance he said that he will introduce his poetry that was as he said “was roaming in a junk”. So we did a [... 0% 0% Building of our house is progessing fast... Today’s pictures from the building site of our house. A huge progression in a week. Compare with THIS post from 4th of December. About 140 trucks of soil was driven away from our property. Guys from GRASS company are really good and hard working! 0% 0% Photographing genetically modifyed lab m... Last week I visited a laboratory of Biotehniška fakulteta in Domžale and with journalist Staš Zgonik we checked their lab and their storage room in the basement (dungeon as they call it) of the faculty. We had to dress sterile clothes, but not because we could get a disease, but because of mouses. They are [... 0% 0% World Press Photo opening in Ljubljana B5, JeanChristoph Couet and Chris de Bode as critics of a winning picture of World Press Photo 2008 opening in Ljubljana, Slovenia. THe opening of exhibition was good. Quite a lot of people showed up, although not so much professional photographers, that are constantly complaining how nothing is going on the field of photojournalism on [... 0% 0% Striptiz portrait of ethno band Jararaja... Music band Jararaja is renown acoustics ethno band. I had a different idea for them in mind, but since days are so short and they could not meet together before the evening I decided to torture the guitar again. 0% 0% The construction of our house started! Finally the construction of our house began with big steps as you can see. A months ago there was still nothing, but now there is a slope (škarpa) built and the hole for foundation dig. Last year we build a road to our house and you can compare with THIS POST. [... 0% 0% Opening of the Worf Press Photo exhibiti... On Monday at 18.00 in Cankarjev dom there will be an opening of World Press Photo exhibition! I think it’s great to have Word Press Photo exhibition again in Slovenia. I’m really happy that Cankarjev dom pulled it off! Chris de Bode an art director of Fotopub have a lot of friends at WPP and I [... 0% 0% President Danilo Türk on a new cover pa... Here is a new cover page of Mladina weekly. Jure Trampuš did an interview with The President of Slovenia dr. Danilo Türk for tomorrows issue of Mladina weekly. What do you think? Is it too close cropped on the cover? I think it’s good, because it’s so narrowly cropped. I think this one is good [... 0% 0% Today was not my day… Today I had so many photo-terms. Starting with a portrait of a Trimo CEO Mrs. Tatjana Fink. I forgot to bring to Trebnje tripod and a softbox for the flash, but luckily I was an hour early, so I called taxi to bring me those things. He charged me 30 EUR! But as long the [... 0% 0% Fabi, our second dog euthanised Six months after I took my dog Sker for euthanasia my wife took her dog Fabi for treatment too and after vetenarian did ultrasound of internal organs, check blood and urin he advise her to put dog to sleep. He was 14 years old and had his 7 lives. Once he has eaten rat poison [... 33% 67% Vilko Filač died I just read @ MMC that Vilko Filač died. He was cameraman of Emir Kusturica’s best movies. Their movies won two awards in Cannes, in Venice and many, many others. I remember him that when I was in Secondary school thinking to go to study in FAMU Academy in Prague, a friend of mine mentioned [... 0% 0% Photoblog first randevu of Minister Ale... Today’s picture from a political meeting of state prosecutors of Slovenia. On the picture is Aleš Zalar, newly elected Minister of Justice and Barbara Brezigar The State Prosecutor of the Republic Slovenia. 0% 0% New Flower - Power pictures with newly e... Two pictures from my Fower Power project: Flower bouquet with former minister Iztok Jarc and Milan Pogačnik a new minister of agriculture, forestry and food. Flower and Ministers in newly elected Slovenian government @ the reception with a Slovenian president. PS: I have way too much work. Short posts… ... 0% 0% Jure Godler, a creative portrait as a Sp... Here is a creative portrait of Jure Godler, commisioned by Mladina weekly. Jure Godler is a prodigy. Extremely talented comedian, musician, impersonator, illusionist, etc. HERE is his blog. Jure Aleksič made and interview with him and we’ve met on Tuesday, but interview was long and it left only 15 min for a portrait, so I [... 0% 0% Flower Power on signing a coalation cont... Here are two new Flower Power images taken on a ceremonial signing of coalition contract for a new government between presidents of political parties: Karel Erjavec (DESUS), Borut Pahor (SD), Katarina Kresal (LDS), Gregor Golobič (ZARES). ... 0% 0% Damjan Kozole, a creative portrait for S... Damjan Kozole one of the most recognized film director in Slovenia. His latest project is a theater show Noč ali klic v sili (Night or call of distress)in Slovensko Mladinsko Gledališče in Ljubljana. This portrait is commissioned by Mladina weekly. I imagined a portrait that is merging two worlds of Dajman Kozole, that is film [... 0% 0% Now is a peak of my life Last Sunday it was a 22nd anniversary from an accident where in the middle of child game I spilled myself with a burning gasoline and suffered severe burns. That was the lowest point of my life. Yesterday I had 34th birthday and I never felt stronger, healthier and happier in my life. Now is the [... 0% 0% Questionmark with US dollars Yesterday we’ve arranged with Abanka so they let me 100 notes of US dollar and 100 notes of EUR currency, so I could make question mark with USD currency and exclamation sign with EUR currency. Of course pictures were shot in the sealed room in the basement of the bank. This is an add version [... 0% 0% New Striptiz creative portrait Sebastija... Sebastijan Pregelj is a writer who recently published a book Na terasi babilonskega stolpa. We’ve met on Friday and discussed how should we do his portrait and I didn’t had a clear idea. I asked him to write a text about his work and he was writing how he is inspired by everyday stories [... 0% 0% Car hits a pedestrian on a sidewalk @ Du... In front of Mladina’s office there is a huge sidewalk on which often people park their cars. I was walking toward Mladina, when I saw a car driving backwards and a driver observing his drive only in a review mirrors. I saw through his windshield that he is going directly on a lady that [... 0% 0% Damon Winter is a huge inspiration! By coincidence I dived into press pictures from Obama elections. My favorite blog is boston.com/bigpicture where they collect best images from different winds, so when I saw a blog from Denverpost I was sure those amazing pictures are also a collection from many agencies, but no! It’s a work of one photographer, Damon Winter! Amazing! [... 0% 0% Cover pages on Obama This is a cover page of Mladina weekly and is a variation to a Lenin’s October revolution. Creative director Robert Botteri. And amazonaws.com is publishing hundreds of cover pages and Newdesigner.com is publishing 50 best cover pages. I can’t believe it! Obama has a photostream on Flickr! (source aphotoeditor and Jackarony [...... 0% 0% More images for the hotel Ciao guys, here are few more images for the hotel. 0% 0% Wherever I may roam I just came back from Prijedor where I had a short workshop and a talk on photography. I also picked up exhibition from the Gallery 96. Today I drove for 8 hours with some short pauses and I just realized that in last five weeks I drove for more then 7200 km. Wherever [... 0% 0% I am intrigued by 6×9 landscape picture... I just returned from the lab Foto Format where they are printing my pictures. One of the pictures is also a picture of my dog in the landscape that I’ve done years ago. It’s done on FUJI GSW 690 and I can’t explain why I was hypnotized by this picture. Dimensions will be 1 [... 0% 0% Pictures of Grimmski, my favourite upcom... Last week I’ve done pictures for Grimmski band. Thy are my favorite new band from Slovenia. Check their music on myspace and download their album from Grimmski.com. What do you think about their music and of course pictures. I decided to go for saturate colors, shadows, contrasts,… sort of their music sounds like. [... 0% 0% An creative portrait of Matej Praprotnik... For Mladina weekly I’ve done two portraits of Matej Praprotnik. He is a young speaker of Slovenian National Radio, program Val 202. He is know for his wicked talk humor, where he twist words in a new meaning. Like once he in last second of his show he said “Janez in Urška se bosta” and [... 0% 0% Striptiz portrait Dejan Sluga, curator o... Dejan Sluga is a founder of Photon Gallery and main organizer of Month of Photography. I photographed him in Jakopičeva galerija in Ljubljana, where they were setting up an exhibition. I illuminate him with one flash in the back, close to bars and one with focusing math or however that satovje is called. [... 0% 0% My decision about the site is narrowed d... Lately I don’t blog that much because I’m occupied with choosing new site. I came to a conclusion I want to have full screen images and that narrows down to two sites: Icreations.com and aphotofolio.com. As former DRR.net member I received additional 25% discount from Icreations, so their site would cost me $600 USD + [... 0% 0% Choosing a new site AAAAAAAAAA!!! I’m going crazy with this DRR.net liquidation process and now I’m working on finding a new site. I was working with a web developer on my site for more then six months and although I bought some flash components Slideshowpro the progress was so slow, that I just canceled the whole thing! The potential [... 0% 0% Making business with USA is a doggy thin... Here is a printscreen on my last pictures on DRR.net. Others are erased. Digitalrailroad is dying. I just lost $590 USD because of liquidation of DRR and I also didn’t receive a check of about $700 USD for a job that I’ve done for a magazine from Texas. I’m reluctant to do any business with clients from [... 0% 0% Coverpage of Mladina weekly 44/2008 Cover page of Mladina weekly 44/2008 Photography: Borut Peterlin Graphic design: Ivian Mujezinović Kan Creative direction: Robert Botteri 0% 0% Digitalrailroad.net will shut down in ne... this is a DRR note to their members (including me!) Digital Railroad Suspending Operations – Added Oct. 28, 2008 To our valued Members: We’re sorry to inform you that Digital Railroad (DRR) has shut down. ... |