ABOUT ME
BORUT PETERLIN / a proffessional photographer
specialized in portraiture and Fine Art photography,
based in Slovenia
borut@borutpeterlin.com
www.borutpeterlin.com
+386 41 581 626
Photographers are not failed painters! Speak about myself I’m a failed hockey player, failed Muay Thai fighter, failed chess master, a failed diabolo juggler, a failed marathon runner,… After all my miserable failures in sports, I decided to turn to the arts. More precisely, in photography, the easiest art there is. This is where Japanese engineers do all the work, and we just take pictures. I was right and success soon followed and now people pay me to take pictures. HA!!!
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EDUCATION
2002 – 2003 LCP – London College of Printing, London Institute
Postgraduate Diploma in photography, London, UK
2000 – 2001 FABRICA – Research Centre of Communication
founded by Oliviero Toscani and Luciano Benetton
1994 – 1998 FAMU – Academy of Performing Arts, Film, and TV
Bachelor’s degree in Fine arts, Prague, Czech Republic
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PROFESSIONAL
2010 – onwards Photo-editor of Global monthly, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 – 2010 Photo-editor of Mladina weekly, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001- 2007 Art director of Fotopub, festival of documentary photography, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2000 – 2001 Resident artist at Fabrica / United Colors of Benetton, Treviso, Italy
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PUBLICATIONS:
2011 Kult magazine, Singapore
2010 Nikon Pro magazine, featured photographer, London
2008 A Better Time book, Garda Cartiere, a publishing house, Milano
2008 The Observer, on survivors of concentration camps in BiH, London
2007 Io Donna / Corriere della Sera, Serbian paramilitary members, Rome
2007 D – La Repubblica delle Done, feature story with creative portraits, Milano
2005 Tales from Gorjanci hills, a book, Goga, Novo mesto, Slovenia 2004 From Chaos to Order and Back, Electa publishing house, Milano 2003 Fabrica Files book, Electa publishing house, Milano
2000 Colors Magazine in issues 42, 43,46, Treviso, Italy
2000 Photostorica, a photoessey on prostitution, Italy 2003/10 Mladina weekly
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 “Flower Power”, Kaunas Photo festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
2008 “Our daily chemicals”, Palace EU, Brussels, Belgium
2008 “Striptiz portraits”, Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2007 “Emerging Slovenia”, Host Gallery, London, UK
2004 “River Beaches”, Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 “A 1/60s of London”, GUF Pekarna, Maribor, Slovenia
2002 “Tales from Gorjanci hills”, Ragov log, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2001 “5am”, Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2000 “Portraits of Novo mesto”, Museum of Dolenjska, Slovenia
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 “U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2008 “Living on Earth 2008”, Konica Minolta Plaza, Days Japan, Tokyo, Japan
2008 “Photonic, Luminatic”, Contemporary Slovenian Photography, Gallery K2, Izmir, Turkey
2007 “Strojan Roma family“, Festival Fotopub, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2006 “Nova F“, Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
2006 “Prekinjene zgodovine“, Gallery of Modern art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2005 “River beaches?, Festival Fotopub, Novo mesto, Slovenia
2004 “Bitte Lächeln, Aufname”, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2004 “East of East”, Exhibition of Chinese and Slovene Contemporary art, Castle, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2003 “U3″, Trienale of Contemporary Art, Modern Gallery, Slovenia
2003 “Different Same”, Exhibition of Chinese and Slovene Contemporary art, Museum Doland, Shanghai, China
1999 “Photography of the year”, Cankarjev dom, Slovenia
1998 “Goodbye Twentieth Century”, Belgrad, Serbia
1997 “Zombies, Lichensteins palace”, Prague, CZ
1996 “World Young Photography”, Krakow, Poland
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