BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

Here is our new cover page. I’m really happy with it, especially considering the improvisation that was going on. For all of you who don’t know what the number stands for, is the alarming level of inflation in Slovenia. The face is our Prime Minister Janez Janša and crumbs goes for his statement that the inflation is not alarming as long loafs of bread are sticking out of trashes.

Creative director: Robert Botteri

Illustration: Tomaž Lavrič

Graphic design: Ivian Mujezinović

Photography: Borut Peterlin

In_Mladina we have a rubric Profil. This time it was written by Jure Aleksič (my favourite Mladina’s journalist) about Janez Burger, a film director. With two of his films he won 19 awards only in Slovenia and many more abroad. His third film Na sončni strani alp (On the sunny side of Alps) was a short one and in it’s exploring all the cliches of Slovenia, just that actors are all Africans or Afro-Americans. My first idea would be that actors from the film in their Slovenian folk dresses would photograph him being almost naked sort of native African like. He didn’t had time and frankly neither did I, so we abolish the idea.

Second idea emerged that I would play on his surname Burger, so I’ve made the picture him eating a burger with sesame letters Janez. Kind of Striptiz portrait.

I’m satisfied with the picture, although I must admit that lately I’m running out of time devoted to photography.

Two issues ago we published a feature story on hunting and eating of dormouse. I wrote a post about it. In our editorial we received a fierce feedback from our readers. Federation of Slovenian Societies Against Cruelty to Animals even wrote a proposal to Ministry of Enviorement demanding to ban hunting of dormouse. In the letter they are explicitly mentioning our article.

I’m vegetarian for last six years and so is my wife. She can’t understand that I volunteered (I’m picture editor, so I could ask someone else to do it) to take pictures from the hunt. Well, I wanted to have graphic pictures of the whole ritual as it is. My personal opinion is that it’s much more perverted to enjoy in the kill that someone else did and behave like you have nothing to do with it, then to enjoy the kill itself. If you do the kill you get the full spectrum of your actions. If you pay someone to kill for you, you pay him for your clear conscience and you live in a fiction as a more humane human being.

Who is bigger hypocrite Jamie Oliver or Blaž Ogorevc? Or better who’s audience are bigger hypocrits?

I’m really happy with the publication and the result of it. I didn’t save any dormouse, but that was not my intention anyway. Sometimes is better just to show the mirror without any preaching.