BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

did I mention he’s living in my region of Slovenia?

This photo I took yesterday. By coincidence I spotted a convoy of armored vehicles Patria 8×8 that stopped at a rest stop Barje on a highway in Ljubljana. I took few pictures just upon their departure. Yesterday Slovenian army declared that Slovenian name for Patria AMV 8×8 is Svarun. Only when I was editing pictures I noticed that a truck parked beside is wearing a sign Finec (a guy from Finnland). Extraordinary coincidence.

You can see my other images of Patria in my archive.borutpeterlin.com

On Friday I went to the opening of exhibition in Gallery Simulaker by Sašo Vrabič. I took my camera to make few documentary pictures of the opening. I took few frames and when we were exiting the gallery I ask him again to walk pass his painting. I set my camera to 1/8 s shot the image hand holding the camera. I didn’t had great expectations and I’ve shot it in 5 min, but I’m really satisfied with the portrait, so now we’ll publish it in Mladina in notorious Striptiz rubric. You can see few more images from the occasion in my archive.borutpeterlin.com.

By the way, Sašo is also a singer of Perpetuum Jazzile choir, who’s video on you tube had 6.million views.

Dragan Živadinov is one of the most important active Slovenian artist. He is one of the founders of Neue Slowenische Kunst, in 1999 he was first theater director who made a «Zero Gravity Biomechanical Theater», he reveled to wider audience a work of Herman Potočnik Noordung (1892 – 1929) one of first great pioneers of space travel, Dragan is also a passionate promoter of Slovenian branch of European Space Agency and foremost Dragan is a very passionate person. Really joyful to share his vision of art, space and other bigger then life ideas. I had this idea for his portrait for a very long time and now Jure Aleksič wrote an excellent article about Dragan, so I got a chance to do the portrait for Mladina weekly.

If you’re interested in technical details of th picture click HERE. I’ve illuminated him with hand held flash SB-900 strength 1/32.

Podcast about Otto Snoek’s exhibition opening at Fotopub Festival 2009. Otto Snoek is a Rotterdam photographer who was for twelve years documenting his home town. On the exhibition opening there was a guest Majda Širca, Minister of Culture of Republic Slovenia (she is a blogger too!). More information on www.fotopub.com
28.7.2009, Novo mesto, Slovenia

Here is a picture from Tuesday of Minister of Culture Majda Širca at exhibition Hometown of Otto Snoek in Jakčev dom. This and all other exhibitions you got to see! They are mind blowing! And today is the main day in festival program because at 21.00 there will be a projection of Thursday Nikon Award! Please check out the nominees from 15 countries.

Ivan (fotoholik), Baco (Pucelj) and myself arrived today to Arles Festival. It’s enormous place. First day I’ve been focused on portfolio review and had three meetings with renown reviewers. First one (no names, OK?) really liked my Striptiz portraits and 5am were too much pictures, but she was also very tired. Second one really liked my 5am, but not my Striptiz portraits and third one really liked my 5am and recommend me publishing houses in France, Spain, Italy,… I’m satisfied with the feedback I received until now. I’m anxious to see tonight’s projection show. Tomorrow I’m meeting more people and visiting also some exhibitions.

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Sorry guy for not blogging these days, but I’ve been super busy preaparing material for Arles festival. I decided to make another version of 5am book. I started this project in Fabrica in year 2000 and since 2003 I’ve made like seven versions of the book, but after my postgraduate studies in London College of Communication I stoped making new versions, although when I traveled to Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Ukraine, Germany, France, China I was still photographing.

Oh… the concept… It’s very simple. I wanted to photograph in different places of the world at the same time of day. I’ve chosen 5am, because it’s so ambiguous  time of the day, when parties are ending and work starts, when day it’s not over, but it also didn’t start yet,… AND THAT BEUTIFUL MORNING LIGHT!!! The serenity of quite morning after a loud night. It’s pure magic! I’ll build a website with this material during the weekend.

My work flow is that I gather all the files in one folder. Then I make a broader selection, then I print all pictures and place them on the floor (wall is better). Then I was making a linear story and while doing that I was making pairs of individual pictures. I gather pairs into clutters and thinking how and where should I include them in the linear sequence. Then I put this raw sequence in digital form, print it out and lay it down again. Fine tunning was done in Indesign. From 250 pictures I edit it down to something like hundred and six images. From Indesign I exported it to PDF and today I’ve ordered prints in the lab. As you know my wife is binding books (alenkapeterlin.com) so she’ll make a lovely book. I also order a book in blurb.com, but uncompressed book in CMYK is 1,4 GB and that will take like 24 hours to upload.

Anyway what I want to say is I work really hard and I’ll make my posts more simple with less text and more pics. Here is one that I really love. Ministers Mitja Gaspari and Ivan Svetlik last Wednesday in parliament on celebration of 18th anniversary of Slovenia’s Independence day.

Creative director: Robert Botteri
graphic design by Ivian Mujezinović Kan
Photography: Borut Peterlin

PS:
THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR VOTING! In just few hours (from 8am – 3pm) you voted almost 100 times and this post received 500 726 visits/today. Final decision was made and it was a tough call! On the end editors decided to publish two cover pages, so next issue of Mladina will have two cover pages. In the shop you’ll have a pile of Mladinas and the content will be the same, only there will be two different covers. HA! I think that’s great idea! Bellow there are two chosen covers.

This is another Striptiz creative portrait for Mladina of actor Aleksandar Rajaković – Sale and his theater performance based on a book Čefurji Raus. About the book incident I described two posts ago HERE and today was a shooting day. Everything went wrong from rain to misunderstandings + super tight schedule of 15 min for the shoot. On top of everything I missed a meeting for a commercial shoot. What an embarrassment! After I had to run to Trieste where I made lovely portrait of Jože Pirjavec. More on that later. Yesterday I did a commercial job and tomorrow I have another commercial job. Luckily I’m photojournalist and I prefer like that instead of brainstorming for hours.