This is great lecture on creative thinking! Especially the part where it differs between being different (all those photographers who use old - special effect cameras are just diferent not creative!) and being creative and a part where he talks about a mistake that is not a mistake in a negative sense. I love it!
People considers me as a creative person - many times too creative. My fuel for creativity is a constant battle between two principles. First principle is that I’m not afraid to make a mistake and that principle without hesitation pushes me into very difficult situations, where I have a bold idea for the picture, but no budget, short deadline and no understanding of many people why do I have to complicate so much. Second principle is that I hate making mistakes and I try every single option until I give up.
So one side of me is keep getting in the trouble and second side is getting me out of it, saving what can be saved. And that is a real battle, where a real people, real situations and real deadlines are involved. Luckily I love the fight or creative process and usually I find a way to win! If not I say to myself I did all in my power, but circumstances were just overwhelming, so my consciousness is clear.
Let me repeat that tomorrow is an important lecture on creative photography at Magdalena Festival in Maribor, Slovenia by Siri Vorbeck and Cassandra Knipper, art directors of creative commercial photography at Corbis agency.
PS: I’m counting on some creative comments. And let me answer beforehand to JC. YES, farting is allowed on this blog, as it encourage lateral thinking.
Ciao tutti!
Here are some relevant information that you could appreciate.
Fotopub festival of documentary photography opened a new season with great program! Art director is Chris de Bode (NL), masterclass mentor is Robert Knoth (NL) and other mentors will be also Steve Forest (UK), Yann Mingard (CH), Dieter Telemans (B), J.B. Russell (USA) + Katarina Sadovski, Uroš Abram and Uroš Zagožen. We will have also a lot of guests John Novis (Greenpeace), Tiziana Faraoni ( Espresso magazine), dr. Roman Kuhar (Peace Institute Slovenia), Bojan Brecelj, Meta Krese, Arne Hodalič,… More on www.fotopub.com Book a week between 21st and 26st of Jully for a holidays! Each morning at 8am we will have free Salsa (by Katarina Ž.) and Tai Ji Quan classes (by B5).
Check World Press Photo interviews. Great site, great content. I like the Platon interview. For me his portrait of Putin is probably the best picture in WPP.
A lecture you could not miss will happen in Maribor on the Festival Magdalena on Friday 16th from 14.15-15.30. Siri Vorbeck and Cassandre Knipper from Corbis London will have a lecture on production of striking images. They will also look some portrfolios.
I’m back from a week’s assignment in Bosnia, commissioned by Garde Cartiere. It was really hard work, driving every day for about 3-5 hours on the local roads, organizing, photographing, … But as always Bosnia is great. I can’t explain with usual stereotypes, but I love Bosnia. I have great friends there and I always meet more great people. Like I met Igor Motl with who I got in contact in wordpress blogosphere and of course there is a Sarajevo Massive with Timur, Šimek, Emina and other friends from pro.ba + I visit Paul Lowe in his house.
I met so many incredible people. People who are full of love and devoted in helping their fellow persons like Jovan Divjak, Tetka Zilha and many many others. I’ll publish their portraits after I show it to photoeditor in Italy.
But unfortunately I met also some people, that I would prefer to avoid. Like last day my car was broke into and a studio flash with flashfeeder and radio synchro receiver and two transmitters were stolen. I blame it completely on my laziness that I left it in a trunk. It was my last night in Sarajevo and I felt relaxed and my cautiousness drop, so I made a mistake. Neighbor told me that this street is a very popular by thefts. Anyhow I travel a lot and this is first time that i was robbed.
That day I’ll remember also because when I was driving back to SLO, I picked up a senior lady that was hitchhiking and I soon she started to offer herself to me. I realize she was an old prostitute and although it was funny at the start I show her that I don’t appreciate the conversation and just turn up the music and drop her off where she was going.
While driving I contemplated everything what I’ve experienced and visualized my thoughts as a water flowing down my spine. I felt such a pure and strong water current and although few drops of oil pollutes thousand litters of water, I just focused how it’s being flushed out by a power of Niagara falls. Strange thing happened. In my mind appeared a picture of my friends that got involved in the crime and that they are probably doing the same to others. I imagined my friend from Sarajevo that got addicted by heroin and although I know he’s not in Bosnia I imagined that I give him my stuff and he is relived of pain for a few hours.
I was relived from the painful experience forever.
Today I flew a glider plane for two circles and it felt great!
OK. After unauthorized footage of Emina, Timur MAkarević made a proper video of my Tai Ji Quan, form 42. Let me just point out that by style developed at Bjelašnica mountain official martial uniform is a jeans. (I expect some additional information from Ninja revisori + guest appearance of ŽanPistoff)
Otherwise here is a chill out image of Emina, Timur and myself.
Ciao tutti! I’m in BiH - Republic Srbska in Prijedor, working on a project A Better Time project for an Italian publishing house Garda Cartiere. They hired ten photographers through out the world and I was commisioned to do portraits in BiH. Check their last years pick. http://abetterproject.com/
I’ll blog more about it when I’ll do some more work, that’s in a week time or so.
PS: Backstage pictures were done by Igor Motl. THX!!
Magdalena Festival of visual communications. Their logo is a sexz leg kicking and since their festival is personifying creativity I thought to photograph them as they are peeking under Magdalena’s skirt. Manca Jevšček helped me out to find Steklarstvo Slokan, where they helped us out with strong glass (kaljeno steklo) on which Jernej Verbič (a journalist from POP TV) stood tall in a skirt. I guess this picture will ruin his potential future career as a politic. However it was not that simple too shoot. I had to direct Jernej how and where to hold my camera and then checking out the result under his skirt…. I caught better expressions, but in this picture legs and skirt is perfect, so I’ve chosen this one.
Here is a portrait of writers Nina Kokelj and Kruno Antonić for Stritpiz rubric of Mladina weekly. They’ve made an illustrated children’s book JON IN TADAO where the sotry develops on the train. For this portrait I prepared very well, but things got so wrong. First newly bought torch didn’t work and Nina was not feeling well, so we did only two shots. This is the second one.
Jerca Šantej is a painter who’s work often intervenes with public spaces such as buss stations, cars, walls, etc. In my portrait I wanted that public space intervenes with her. Portrait commisioned by Mladina for Striptiz rubric.
For this issue of Mladina I did a coverpage. Or better my picture was chosen for a cover. I did the picture on a gathering of Social demokrat party in Novo mesto. The cover appears to be a photo montage, but it’s not! Well, it is polished well, but the shot was as it is. Here is the full frame of the picture.
I’m shooting in raw format on fixed lenses, so I can afford to make quite nasty crops. I prefer that then zooms.
Here is another one from the occasion, where Sašo Hribar is telling jokes on Borut Pahor.
For this issue of Mladina I did also pictures of first president Milan Kučan. I did literally two shots from this perspective and three more from different position and few more during the interview.
I love taking pictures of political events and even more I love seeing them printed. Each picture printed in Mladina is seen by more then 100.000 people + it’s archived in libraries forever. Sure pictures do appear to be trivial (sometimes), but it’s great to see your small contribution in a product of a collective. Small, but crucial! I just love the game!
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