Posts Tagged ‘politic’
Flower Power and Vladimir Putin
Regular readers of my blog know well my Flower Power project that is a personal rebellion against politics and news-photojournalistic-safaris. Instead glorifying politicians I’m focusing on plants and degrading politicians on disturbing background. It was exhibited on 6th U3 Slovenian art triennial in Gallery of Modern Art in Ljubljana, which I consider a Rock and Roll achievement. Yesterday Vladimir Putin was visiting Slovenia and I’ve made this pictures of beautiful plants. I hope you will enjoy it and let Flower Power be with you.
Redni bralci mojega bloga poznajo serijo Flower Power, kjer kot osebni protest proti politiki in novičarskim-fotosafarijem, fotografiram cvetlične aranžmaje in namesto, da bi glorificiral velmožje, jih degradiram na moteče ozadje. Serija je bila razstavljena na U3 – trienale sodobne umetnosti v Sloveniji v Moderni galeriji, kar si štejem za čisti rok in rol dosežek! Včeraj je bil Vladimir Putin na obisku in naredil sem te čudovite botanične fotke. Upam, da vam bodo všeč in naj vas Flower Power spremlja.
A resignation of Zoran Thaler, a Member of the Europarliament
Yesterday Zoran Thaler, a Member of the Europarliament resigned because of allegations of bribing by Sunday Times. I think it was the only proper decision to be made and I’m sure that the investigation will clarify his true motifs. If I was cooperating with some doggy lobbying company to discover their dirty game, I would definitely ask for help or if I would think that I can do it on my own, I would secretly record the conversation, or gather some other evidence on my own. Only fact that goes in behalf of Thaler is that he didn’t issue an invoice. Perhaps he is always issue late, as I am, with issuing invoices. Perhaps he had a second thought about where this is going, perhaps he was more cautious then other MP’s that were more clearly caught. The fact that he didn’t want to answer journalistic questions and he walked away, proves to me, that he knows his defense is leaking from all sides.
More Hi-Res images in my archive.
Včeraj je Zoran Thaler, poslanec evropskega parmalenta odstopil, po obtožbah o podkupovanju s strani Sunday Timesa. To je bila edina sprejemljiva poteza z njegove strani in upam, da bo nadaljna preiskava razkrila njegove prave motive. Če bi jaz sodeloval z neko mutno lobistično firmo, z namenom, da razkrijem njihovo umazano igro, potem bi vsekakor prosil za pomoč, ali če bi že mislil, da lahko zadevo sam izpeljem, bi tajno posnel pogovor ali zbral kak drug dokazni material. Edino dejstvno, ki gre v prid Thalerju, je da ni izdal računa za njegove “storitve”. Morda je vedno pozen pri izdajanju računov, kot sem tudi sam, morda ga je vest spekla in se je zavedal kam vse to vodi, morda pa je samo bolj pretkan, kot sta bila ostala poslanca, ki sta se ujela na limance. Dejstvo, da ni želel odgovarjati na novinarska vprašanja, mi govori, da se zaveda, da njegova obramba pušča z vseh strani.
PS: Jure Godler solved the mystery of missing 100.000 EUR!
Romas colectively cleaning their settlement Dobruška vas, Škocjan, Slovenia
Today there was a cleansing action in Roma settlement Dobruška vas, Slovenia. After Škocjan municipality got a new major, a plan was accepted to improve living conditions for Roma settlement. First action was to clean the Roma settlement and municipality supplied trash bags and containers, while Roma cleaned the trash. Next action is a supply of drinking water. These Romas have nearest access to drinking water on 5km distanced graveyard. During the winter also this pipe is closed so they melt snow or drink from a stream that is polluted from farm fields and landfill. The stream serves also as a canalization for the settlement. This Roma settlement suffered a lot. Six years ago Slovenian terrorists throw a hand grenade through a window of last house in the settlement, killing a teacher’s assistant and her mother. Of course this terrorists are still unconvicted, since court can not agree about evidence.
However today sun was shining in this settlement after a very long time. As a journalist I was personally surprised that no journalist covered the event, inspite that I’ve personally told them this will be happening. As a contrast let me show a picture from yesterday’s anti-Roma protest in front of town hall in Novo mesto. There were about 40 protesters and 13 journalists.
More about terrorists killing Romas you can read on THIS link.
Danes je bila delovna akcija v romskem naselju Dobruška vas. Po tem, ko se je župan Škocjana zamenjal, so se v občini odločili, da ukrenejo nekaj za izboljšanje razmer v romskem naselju Dobruška vas. Za začetek so sklicali čistilno akcijo pri kateri je občina priskrbela vreče in kontejnerje, Romi pa so očistili naselje odpadkov. Sledila bo akcija, da ljudem omogočijo dostop do pitne vode. Namreč ti Romi imajo najbližjo pipo na pet kilometrov oddaljenem pokopališču. Pozimi je tam vodovod zaprt, tako talijo sneg ali pa pijejo iz potoka v katerega se steka vsa svinjarija iz polj in smetišč, služi pa tudi kot kanalizacijski jašek za naselje. To je to naselje, kjer so pred šestimi leti slovenski teroristi vrgli bombo skozi okno zadnje hiše v naselju in ubili pomočnico učiteljice in njeno mamo. Seveda ti teroristi so še vedno neobsojeni in na prostosti, saj se strokovnjaki ne more zediniti glede dokazov. Kakorkoli že, danes je prvič po zelo zelo dolgem času posijalo sonce v to žalostno vas. Mene, kot novinarja je presenetilo, da te zgodbe ni nobena medijska hiša pokrivala, kljub temu, da sem novinarjem osebno povedal, da se to dogaja in da je vredno medijske pozornosti. Kot kontrast naj povem, da so včeraj imeli Silvo Mesojedec in krajani Bučne vasi protestni shod pred mestno hišo v Novem mestu in 40 protestnikom je pozornost namenilo 13 novinarjev.
Več o tej zgodbi slovenskih teroristov lahko preberete na tej povezavi.
Anti Roma protest in front of City Hall, Novo mesto.
Silvo Mesojedec in krajani Bučne vasi na protiromskem shodu, Glavni trg, Novo mesto. 20110310_8119
New cover page of Mladina weekly
Photography: Borut Peterlin, Graphic design Ivian Mujezinovič Kan, Creative director Robert Botteri
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Katarina Avbar – creative portrait for Mladina weekly
Katarina Avbar is a singer-songwriter and I made this portrait for Mladina weekly. Yesterday morning I got an assignment and in the afternoon we met and I decided that I’ll do a portrait right away. Today is a holiday in Slovenia and I was reluctant to go to Ljubljana again. We met in chambers of Slovenian Writers Association, since she is collaborating with them. So here we were without a good concept how to make a picture. I like the room, since it looks like a room from The Shining film at Timber Lodge Hotel. So first I took a picture as a sketch and I loved the symmetry of the room, just there were way too many elements. I wondered how can I get rid of everything and focus only on fabulous sculptures of Slovenian writers and on beautiful Katarina.
I’m publishing work in progress pictures. You can see the first picture with initial view of the room. I decided to flip the table, but composition was way too predictable and sculptures didn’t play a meaningful role in the picture. I took a picture then I tried to even more reduce the elements on the picture and focus on only four sculptures with Katarina behind. When she stepped behind the sculptures the doors were not seen and as you can see from the first picture I loved the doors and I wondered how can I keep them in the picture. I asked Katarina to stand on a chair and hold a guitar. The guitar didn’t had a strap so she just hold it by her legs. P.E.R.F.E.C.T. That vertical position of a guitar goes perfectly with a perspective. On the end all I needed is to light it accordingly with a composition, so I used two flashes Nikon SB 800 and SB900 triggered by SU-800. Flash above sculptures had a softbox, flash lying on the floor in front of Katarina was set on 35mm zoom, since I wanted to have shadows going along the perspective. You can also see how I was playing with the light above the sculptures figuring out what combination of shadows works best.
I’m really pleased with the result. I’m describing all this because many photographers are discouraged to start doing a photography since they don’t have a clear, detailed concept. Let me tell you a secret. Even God doesn’t have a concept, so stop worrying and just do the picture.
Crucifix on a cover of Mladina weekly (not staged!)
This is a cover of Friday’s Mladina weekly where we’re writing about financial breakdown of catholic church of the city of Maribor and their financial speculations. This picture is not staged. A reader Polona Gorišek sent us her picture of the crucifix done by a cell phone. It was perfect motif for a theme of this issue and after I’ve redo the picture we decided to run it on a cover and It can’t be a blasphemy, since it’s not staged, it’s a straight shot.
OK, when we found the crucifix it was already night, so I’ve done two exposures. First I expose it for 15 min, so I’ve recorded some sky, then I illuminated the crucifix. I tried with lightbrushing, with a flash, but on the end I realized it’s best if I just flash a burst of flash straight down on the ground and light reflected from snow, gave this perfect soft, bounced light. I’m attaching a lightbox of images for a light study.
Scouting: Polona Gorišek and Peter
Photography: Borut Peterlin
Graphic design: Ivian Mujezinović Kan
Creative director: Robert Botteri
Before some might accuse me of blasphemy, let me note that half a year ago my picture was on a cover of Marija magazine and I give it for free. I just asked to be captioned Borut Peterlin/Mladina and it is. So don’t blame me, I’m just taking pictures, the boss upstairs takes all the credit. (and Japanese geeks from Nikon)
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Tu je naslovnica Mladine, kjer pišemo o finančnem zlomu mariborske nadškofije in njenih finančnih spekulacijah. Ta fotka ni nastavljena. Bralka Polona Gorišek nam je poslal fotko s telefona in ker je bil motiv idealen za ilustracijo teme, sem se odločil, da se zapeljem na kozjansko in ponovno naredim posnetek. Po ogledu končnega posnetka smo se odločili, da jo imamo na naslovnici. In ne more biti blasfemija, ker ni aranžiran, nastavljen motiv ampak enostaven posnetek iz vsakdana.
OK, morda ni enostavno fotografiran motiv, ker ko smo prispeli na ta zakotni del kozjanskega je bila že noč, tako sem osvetljeval 15 minut samo nebo, potem pa še križ. V posprodukciji pa sem posnetka združil. Pri osvetljevanju razpela, sem poizkušal s selektivnim osvetljevanjem z baterijo, a na koncu sem ugotovil, da je nalepša svetloba, ki se odbije od snega na tleh in odboj je dal res lepo razpršeno svetlobo. Pripenjam tudi lightbox kako sem snemal.
Preden me kdo obtoži blasfemije, naj povem, da sem pred kake pol leta doniral več fotk reviji Marija in ena je bila tudi naslovnica. Tako evo, ne me grdo gledat niti z leve, niti z desne, jaz samo slikam. Šef tam gor za vse je zaslužen (in japonski giki iz Nikona)
Poorest Roma in Slovenia (also this is EU)
Last week I’ve visited two Roma families that are living on their own land in Semič, Slovenia. They are isolated from Roma and Slovenian community. I saw a lot of Roma communities but they were surely the poorest. They are even poorer then Roma in Dobruška vas.
When I showed this pictures to my three years old daughter she said, they are poor because they are stealing, isn’t? I couldn’t believe my ears. I explained that theft is not limited to nationality. I also wanted to add that many members of Slovenian elite are accused and prosecuted because they were stealing (cheating, bribing, blackmailing,…) and they are far from being poor, but I didn’t want to leave a feeling that crime pays off, although it’s obvious that white collar crime does pay off in Slovenia.
I explained my dear daughter that these Roma are poor because they are not educated and they are not educated because they don’t speak Slovenian and they don’t want to go to school because they are dirty since they don’t have a running (or drinking) water, nor electricity. I ask her how would she felt of she would not wear her beautiful skirt, but she would wear that old, dirty, smelly oversize coat? I show her all the details of their home, where they are cooking, eating, sleeping. Their room is all in smoke, because of horrible heating. I show her that they don’t even have doors! Next day I took both daughters to Roma settlement in Brezje. I had many pictures to give away, so I asked my daughters to join me. Little Brina was very shocked. She said. Isn’t true daddy, that the boy in the back is not being cold, because he’s used to walk barefoot in cold although it’s winter? I explain her that this is like in story Levi Devžej where children were really poor and they were walking barefooted through snow. Also Lučka was very touched by the experience.
Silently I was thinking that these Roma are as poor as my ancestors about two or three hundred years ago. And I thought how will our future generation looked at us, on our generation. Perhaps they will look this pictures and even read this and wondered how could we be so primitive that we ruined this planet, not from lack of knowledge, but because of greed. Perhaps my great, great, great, great grand children will live in this kind of room…
Prejšnji teden smo za Mladino obiskali dve romski družini, ki živita na svoji zemlji, na obrobju Semiča. So izolirani tako s strani romske, kot tudi romske skupnosti in videl sem že ogromno romskih družin, a tako revnih še ne. So celo bolj revni kot Romi iz Dobruške vasi.
Ko sem kazal fotke svoji triletni hčeri, ki se je zopet zmrdovala glede kosila, kako revni otroci živijo, je rekla; Revni so zato, ker kradejo, kaj ne? Nisem mogel verjeti svojim ušesom. Objasnil sem ji, da se lopovi ne omejujejo na barvo kože ali nacionalnost. Hotel sem dodati, da so mnogi pripadniki slovenske elite kazensko preganjani zaradi lopovstva (korupcija, podkupovanje, izsiljevanje,…) in še daleč od tega, da bi bili revni, a nisem hotel pustiti vtisa, da se kriminal izplača, čeprav je vsakemu očitno, da se v Sloveniji kriminal belih ovratnikov zelo dobro izplača.
Objasnil sem svoji dragi hčerki, da so ti Romi tako revni, ker niso izobraženi, in niso izobraženi, ker ne govorijo slovensko in nočejo v šolo, ker so tako umazani, saj njihovi domovi nimajo ne tekoče (ali pitne) vode, niti elektrike. Vprašal sem jo kako bi se počutila, če ne bi šla v šolo v svojem lepem plaščku, ampak v tej stari, umazani, preveliki bundi? Pokazal sem ji detajle kje živijo, kuhajo, jejo, spijo. Pokazal sem ji, da živijo v zakajeni sobici, ker jim dimnik pušča. So tako revni, da nimajo niti vrat. Naslednji dan sem vzel obe hčerki v romsko naselje Brezje, da razdamo Romom moje fotografije, ki sem jih davno posnel. Mala Brina je bila kar šokirana in spraševala; Kaj ne, da tistega fantka ne zebe, ker je že navajen, da hodi bos, kljub temu, da je zima? Pojasnil sem ji, da so tako revni, kot so bili sosedje v pripovedi Levi Devžej, ki so bosi hodili skozi sneg. Tudi Lučko se je zelo dotaknila izkušnja.
Brez besed sem pomislil, da so ti Romi tako revni, kot so bili moji predniki pred kakimi dvesto, tristo leti. Pomislil sem kako bodo moji potomci čez kakih sto, dvesto let gledali name in na našo civilizacijo. Morda bodo gledali moje slike, ali to brali in se spraševali kako smo lahko bili tako primitivni, da smo uničili ta planet ne iz neznanja, ampak iz pohlepa! Morda bodo moji potomci živeli v takšni sobici.
New coverpage of Mladina weekly
Creative director: Robert Botteri,
Graphic design Damjan Ilic and Ivian Kan Mujezinovic,
Photography & production Alenka and Borut Peterlin
Ciao tutti,
here is a cover page of tomorrow’s Mladina weekly. Creative editor asked me if I can do a cover with vegetable on a theme of ecology, new mentality, etc… I was reluctant to go ahead with the whole thing, knowing it demands a lot of work and preparation, but since this is my last issue of Mladina weekly on a position of photoeditor I give it a try. (I’ll still work as a photographer for Mladina).
With a help of my lovely wife Alenka (check her site) we made an improvised table top studio. I needed clay to shape up a face on which I will lay vegetable. I got it from my neighbor Vesna Majes Klančičar (she makes fantastic pottery). And here is the result. I didn’t use almost no photoshop, just fine tunning. The most surprising thing was that when I send it to creative director, he asked me how (and why) did I portray a particular Slovenian politician? Did I?
So I’m asking you does it resemble to some Slovenian politician?
PS: Do you remember last vegetable art work by A5 and B5? LINK…
Tu je naslovnica jutrišnjega tednika Mladina. Kreativni urednik me je prosil, da bi naredil nekaj iz zelejave, nekaj na temo ekologije, nova miselnost, pa to. Predlagal sem mu portret človeka iz zelenjave. Kljub temu, da sem nisem bil navdušen, saj vem koliko dela in časa vzame takšen podvig, a glede na to, da je to moja zadnja številka Mladine, kjer sem še fotourednik, sem se odločil, da poizkusim. (saj bom še delal za Mladino, a samo kot fotograf)
S svojo blagorodno ženo Alenko (povezava do njene strani) sva postavila improviziran table-top studio in se lotila dela. Potreboval sem glino, kot osnovo modeliranje oblike obraza katero bom obložil z zelenjavo. Glino sem dobil pri sosedi Vesni Majes Klančičar, ki dela res fenomenalne ročne lončarske izdelke. In tu je rezultat. Nisem skoraj nič uporabljal photoshopa, le tu in tam sem kak detajl zgladil in blitvo očistil glinenih prstnih odtisov. Najbolj me je presenetil komentar urednika, ki me je vprašal kako (in zakaj) sem upodobil določenega politika. Kaj sem res, sem mu vrnil vprašanje.
Tako sprašujem vas. Komu je podoben ta obraz?
PS: Se še spomnite zadnje mojstrovine z zelenjavo, sirom, šunko, mlekom, keksi, tima A5 in B5? (POVEZAVA)
World Press Photo 2010 exhibition in Ljubljana
This is a photo of the week in Mladina weekly. Minister of internal Affairs Katarina Kresal is giving a statement on an exhibition of World Press Photo competition 2010. Behind her is a winning picture of Walter Astrada, Argentina, Agence France-Presse. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Ministrica za notranje zadeve Katarina kresal daje izjavo na razstavi reportažnih fotografij World Press Photo, za njo je zmagovalna fotografija avtorja Walter Astrada, Argentina, Agence France-Presse. Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana. Foto Borut Peterlin
Adolf Hitler survived?!?
Here is the cover page of tomorrow’s issue of Global monthly in which we gather most interesting articles from newspapers around the world. In this issue we’ve focused on Germany and Russia. I’m really happy with the cover, a photomontage by Polish photographer Andrjez Dragan (Check his site). Picture supplied by profimedia.cz, Ferrari
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