This past summer my colleague Nemanja Pancic and I “swapped” cities – I spent a week in Belgrade and Nemanja in Ljubljana.

Currently and up to November 1st 2021 there are some of otherwise many photographs taken on this occasion on show at Galusovo nabrežje in Ljubljana. The exhibition “Applied Nostalgia” was curated by Dragan Kujundzic on behalf of the project initiator, the Ministry of European Integration of the Republic of Serbia.

Thank you also to the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Belgrade for the recommendation and the friendly reception.

You are kindly invited to the first international festival of contemporary photography Kranj Photo Fest, where there will be plenty of interesting photo related events.

One one of the exhibitions on view there is also my work from Istanbul, titled Istanbul, Faces of Freedom, which has been created in collaboration with dr. Oto Luthar and the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).

Maybe you can join us for the opening on August 25, or perhaps you want to take the opportunity to hear us photographers conversing about our work and photography – it will be happening on Friday, August 27.

For the detailed program, please check HERE.

 

I am sharing some visual snapshots from a recent photography workshop I lead between July 5-11 2021, which was part of the Summer school of Visual Ethnography at ZRC SAZU.

It was a great, although, of course, very intense experience for students and mentor(s), but in a week interesting and good photographic stories were created!

Click HERE to read and view more images.

I would have wished my recent New York Times assignment would be on a more inspiring subject… but, it’s where we’re at, now in Slovenia. Enjoy the read on this LINK

In the Atrium of the ZRC (Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana), my photographic exhibition entitled Istanbul, Faces of Freedom will be on display between 20 April to 16 May 2021.

As an integral part of the Freedom of Metropolis project, TRANS MAKING (European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 734855), which questions the freedom of urban, metropolitan life, the present exhibition also wishes to draw attention to changes in urban spaces.

You are kindly invited to visit every working day between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

 

In the media:

Kultura show

MMC 

MLADINA

RADIO PRVI

To read more about my personal work as well as the work of APIS Institute / Zavod APIS, kindly invited to read this interview featured in VantagePoints magazine.

Happy to see some of my published works in newspaper and book form part of the exhibition On the other side. Slovenian photoreportage.

Galerija Jakopič in Ljubljana is open for viewing Tuesday to Sunday between 10a.m. to 6p.m. The exhibition is on until June 19, 2021. Welcome.

 

Cameras rolling – all set up for filming… a documentary on Volpower project with APIS Institute that started in Bolzano, Italy. 6 more countries to go.

The art book Trubarjeva, Expressions of A Street in Transition, offers an intimate and anecdotal look at Trubarjeva street and the special life that has grown out of it over the decades, even centuries. The authors explore this unique street in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana through different artistic approaches and practices – through writing, photography, architectural sketches, collage and graphic design. An array of people’s stories as well as other verbal and visual testimonials are all interwoven to create this thoughtful and compelling – and visually flamboyant – publication.

Title: Trubarjeva, Expressions of a Street in Transition
©2019 APIS Institute and all authors

Texts: Jeff Bickert
Archi-sketches: Blaž Budja
Concept and portrait photography: Manca Juvan
Graphic Collages & Design: Sava Kosmač
Proofreading (SLO): Diana Pungeršič
Translations (SLO): Manca Juvan
Producer of Samosvoja Trubarjeva project: Romana Zajec

Media about TRUBARJEVA book:

TOTAL SLOVENIA NEWS

DNEVNIK

PROGRAM ARS – 3. program Radia Slovenija

VAL 202

STA

RTV SLOVENIJA, ODDAJA KULTURA

DELO

 

ORDER YOUR COPY ON: http://trubarjeva.si/home/