BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

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.

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 know how hard it is to organize this show and that is very expensive. At Fotopub we couldn’t pull it off, but I congratulation to Cankarjev dom that they managed. The least I can do is to thank sponsors TNT, Canon, Nationale Postcode Loterij, Embasy of Niederlands and the donor of the show Miro Senica

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 because it’s not an usual image of the president, so that’s why it’s interesting. And I must say I’m proud on one more cover page with my picture. Mladina is one of rare magazines that number of sold issues is raising and I fancy the idea that cover pages play important role in it.

Considering the portrait. It’s hard to photograph the president during the interview. I use flashes with large softbox so every shot disturbs the conversation. The key question is how much shots do you have until you become a burden to a journalist and a person being interviewed. Oh, yes then their is also president’s PR person that is giving you hard time during portraiture. President’s PR person Tomo Juvan is OK, but I know some PR personnel that make your day miserable. Anyhow I shot about 45 images during 60 minutes of interview, but my record was an interview with Janez Janša where I’ve shot 17 images in 60 minutes. My point is that every shot must be technically perfect, because that shot it might be the last shot, because the person being portrayed would say that’s enough and your only answer would be “Thank you!”