Woodland Beyond Photography is an event where photographers, artists and enviornmentalists retreat in the middle of woodland and create their art. It is organised to spend a weekend in deep forest together with their families. Kočevski rog is ancient woodland in Slovenia, with largest area of virgin forests in whole Europe.
In the caves of Željne, near Kočevje, we prepared an exhbition on the theme Light Shining In, so I invited three artist that creates their art with camera obscura: Michalina Hendrys (PL), Miša Keskenović (SLO) and Gerald Figal (USA). The philosopher dr. Pavel Koltaj gave a speach on the theme Plato’s Cave and how does that relates to our everyday life.
Peter Rauch and Tomaž Pipan both artists based in Slovenia have created a sculpture suspended in the air. Sara Figal (USA) made a sculpture with knitting among trees. Marcus Gabriel (IT) and Christian Klant (D) were making wet plate collodion plates. Photographs and videos used in this video were made by Adrijan Pregelj, Gregor Koščak, Boštjan Pucelj, Miša Keskenović, Anže Grabeljšek and myself.
On the very end I would like to appologise to those who could not join us. The event was organised by myself, without any budget or as I’ve called it, budget-free event, so the only way I could pull this event off is to invite people who are either my friends or friends of my friends. We did not had a support from outside so we all had to contribute to make this event happen. And it did happen!
Last but not least, as a proud father of two daughters I encourage them to get in contact with nature, but a father alone can not do it, so I organise these kind of events were there are tons of kids and we all have a blast.
See you next year and mark the 28th, 29th and 30th of July 2017! And let us not forget… Topshit does happen!
Borut
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