BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

You know my FLOWER POWER project, where I make a photographic revolt against public relation and the world of politics. It started as a joke, but now it’s exhibited in Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, so it’s officially ART! These are my yesterday’s pictures. I can’t decide which one is better. Which one is more nihilistic?

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PS: Garry Winogrand, my inspiration, would be proud.

In tomorrows issue of Mladina weekly there is an article of Borut Mekina, that includes new evidence in Patria bribing affair. It explains evidence against Janez Janša, Tone Krkovič, Tone Zagožen and Ivan Črnkovič and Walter Wolf.

Borut Mekina is publishing evidence that Berglund didn’t know they exist!

N’Toko – Slovenian hip hop raper portrayed for Mladina weekly. We did this shots in 10 min break on the stage of Kino Šiška. One strong spot light from back and a game of light with small reflectors size of 20×30 cm, that is a usual A4 sheet of paper. Hey, it’s recession!!!
More about the music:

http://www.myspace.com/ntoko

Klemen Smolej is a jazz musician and composer that won Jazzon award at Jazzinty festival and I portray him for Mladina weekly’sStriptiz creative portrait rubric.

For this portrait I was planning something completely different, to do a portrait outdoor somewhere at the open space, but I forgot my flash feeder (battery for studio flashes), so I had no power. I would go and hire it, but I thought since I’m in great time pressure (Monday + the first day after vacation) and I don’t have a really good outdoor location I might think of indoor location. It didn’t went well, I couldn’t get the keys to some abandoned rooms at the building, so I bought a cheese burek, thinking that I have 23 minutes to figure out something around Mladina. While I was eating I noticed the glass window just above the cellar of Mladina’s building and I decided to use that. I set a flash downstairs and directed through grid. I tried without a grid, but the whole room was too bright and his face was back lit.

What does the picture mean? Hey, I’m payed to produce images, I’m not qualified to interpret them! You come on this blog, take all my tips&tricks and now you want me to do also the intellectual work? No way! At least not for free! But you can make a pre-subscription to my new blog that will be just about interpretations of my pictures. Of course the subscription will be really expensive, but as a pre-subscriber, you will get a 22,5% discount and 0% of guarantee when this blog will be on-line. Isn’t great? A suspension of emotions! You know, art and stuff.

HERE is my earlier post about the exhibition.
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Here is a link to a show Podobe podobe on Slovenian national TV. Excellent TV show. After I saw it again, I know I need to see the exhibition again.
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Oh, and this morning on national radio there was a radio show Priimkova delavnica that is a show about surnames and today they were talking about surname Peterlin and they called me for a statement. My daughter Lučka was super proud to hear me and her name on the radio

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Last but not least, I’ve participated in The Colors Awards and I was nominated for an award, but haven’t won it. HERE are the winners. That is why I’m reluctant to participated in competitions, because I don’t understand the criteria. It’s more a lottery to me. Anyhow I’m glad I participated and I’ll participate also in the future. My picture will be also in printed edition of The Photo Paper, which looks super slick.

This self-portrait was done yesterday at around midnight. I had to submit a brief for an assignment and instead of describing aesthetic, I was forced to do a self-portrait, since my wife already slept. Lights (2250 Ws) were about 20 meters behind, bounced from the wall and in just in front of my face there was a reflector that was bouncing light from the wall onto my face. The hardest was to guess where is the focus. I put a tripod in front of the lens, focused on it and then I stepped there and moved the tripod out of the frame.
The scary look is because I was wondering if it’ll be in focus and if I’ll be in the frame. First fifteen tries were all completely bad, but with this one I totally look like a rock star, isn’t

Actually the real job is that I will need to portray a rock band.

In the newest summer issue of NIKON PRO, my portfolio is published! This magazine is issued in London and distributed world wide to all Nikon NPS photographers. What an honor!

To quote just the subtitle (or how is it called first paragraph under the title):
His ability to turn the potentially mundane into explosion of colour and creativity is fast turning Slovenian photographer Peterlin into the most sought-after portrait photographer around.

Topshit indeed!

Vuk Ćosić is an amazing multimedia artist. Jure Aleksič interviewed him for tomorrow’s Mladina weekly. This portrait I’ve done with mirror that was in his flat, a large white board (that I’ve brought along), and a beamer. I had only one beamer so I had to make Vuk’s portrait first, then the “Low Disk Space” sign and then shoot the background with numbers and then stitched it all together with Photoshop. I hate photoshoping pictures that can be done without digital intervention, but circumstances are forcing me to take shortcuts in time, resources and time.

Before I came to Vuk I asked him if I can use his computer and beamer, but while I was working on one of his computers, a “Low Disk Space” emerged. I tried to removed it, but Vuk loved this old icon so we include it in the picture. The portrait will be important in my collection of Creative Portraits.

How do you like it? Rate, comment, JC – mock.

ON MY SITE that is powered by APhotoFolio I tried out subtitles feature and it looks great. It’s really great that I can make subtitles to films and it’s really user friendly. Check interface for it. Cool isn’t.

One visitor was complaining it’s crashing his browser. He must be using the new Windows system (Bill Gates, forget Africa, come back and save PC users!) Do you have any problems?

This is a video that I’ve made on Fotopub workshop under mentorship of Anna Stevens and Ervin Hladnik Milharčič. Anna Stevens is responsible for multi-vision production of PANOS pictures and Ervin Hladnik Milharčič is a journalistic legend. I learn greatly working with Anna and her direction in narration of movie and technical tips were really valuable. Ervin Hladnih Milharčič had a workshop on how to write a reportage and although I didn’t succeed in writing a reportage text, I used his tips in shaping narration of the story. One of his great tips was to write a reportage in a shape of scorpion. First pair of pincers to grab readers attention, followed (organically) with the rest of the body; head, body, legs and on the end a sting, that in reportage should be something worth remembering. I made this video with that in mind. I intend to develop it more, since it’s going along with a petition of Mladina weekly to demilitarize Slovenia.

I used Nikon D3s, iMovie, Garage Band and QuickTime.