BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

Urh Sobočan, is an artist who works with lance art and illustration. My first inspiration was spiderman so I bought a cobweb effect spray. My idea was to portray him as a spiderman’s victim. I had many scenarios, but on the end we did the picture in Gallery Krka. In tight time schedule I’ve made few mistakes. The biggest was that white walls are not good background, so in post-process I made it more dramatical and the second was that it’s impossible to make a spider web over a man’s face.

I had two Balcar flashes. Right one was with softbox and second one with small dish bounced from a wall on left side.

Today there was a press conference on new camera Nikon D3s. I was commissioned by Nikon to do a test with the camera through my daily jobs. I7ll write more about it on Friday when I’ll have more time. As you can see from the movie I’m working many jobs at the same time and today I’m finishing this issue of Mladina weekly and tomorrow I have a lecture at Faculty in Sežana. Friday sounds sunny.

PS: Today at 20:00 in Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana there is an opening of exhibition “Photonic Luminatic – new Slovenian photography and video” and you’re all invited! Few of my pics are there as well.

Do you do snapshot photography? I used to do it. Now I can’t. Don’t know why. Too many images I guess. Who will view them? Time.

But the work of Richard Billingham and his book Ray’s a laugh it’s still one of my favourite books. And Terry Richards was working for Sisley when I was at Fabrica and I remember Toscani didn’t like his work. I didn’t like Terry’s work either, but now I do. Garry Winogrand is my favourite photographer who was snapping everything that was moving.

Am I lingering to do more snapshot photography? I think so. To plan everything in advance and knowing what and for who you are shooting it takes the magic away! Please leave a comment who is your favourite snapshot photographer. Or even a link to your favourite snapshot photograph. Let’s get inspired!

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.

DAVKI means taxes in Slovenian language and for Mladina weekly I’ve made this picture illustrating new taxes for real-estate that will be introduced in Slovenia. We’ve planned to have a cover with this issue, but it’s too fragmented with too many small elements, but we used it as a large opening picture inside the magazine. You can see also the vertical version in my archive.borutpeterlin.com
Concept, typography, photography, styling by Borut Peterlin

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.

Žiga Virc, a film director portrayed for Stritpiz rubric at Mladina weekly. Picture was taken on the film set of his new film Prehitri in predrzni: Slovenia drift (too fast and too furious: Slovenia drift).

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I’ve made a portrait of Tomaž Lunder, a photographer. The portrait I’ve done without a preconceived idea, but when I arrived to Škofja Loka, he showed me his studio, his prints and I noted his T-shirt with most reproduced portrait, so I decided to build a picture around that. I put pictures on the floor and he lay down on them. I took a picture from above. It was quite hard to get a straight composition without looking through the camera.
His wife Nives recorded the shooting and I edited in this less then 2min movie.
More pictures on my site www.borutpeterlin.com
PS: How do you like my new blog design?

Nejc Smodiš (brother of Matjaž Smodiš) and Seba Šeremet are artists from Novo mesto, Slovenia. They are painting, illustrating and making sculptures of fantastic nightmare creatures and when I saw it I wanted to make their portrait for my Striptiz portrait rubric in Mladina weekly.

I’ve “glued” two pictures together. First I’ve shot a picture with Nejc and Seba, illuminating them with a 1sqare meter large softbox. Then Nejc had to leave and on next shot I’ve illuminated the dolls with a torch. Of course camera was on a tripod.

Pep Bonet / Noor agency gave an interview on the end of Fotopub festival of documentary photography in Novo mesto, Slovenia.