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Jure Kastelic in Pretty Loops addresses the phenomena of contemporary communication tools and technologies, and focus on visual media from the point of view of interaction with its users. Therefore he commonly refers to ambivalence of an image (a photograph), experiments with manipulating (media) contents, and explores impact of overabundance of information on humans. Author: Jure Kastelic Text: Miha Colner Publisher: Božidar Jakac Gallery in collaboration with Photon Association Year: 2016 Softcover, 32 pages Print: R Tisk Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 16 x 21 cm Edition: 400 -
The Last Gaze / Post-Mortem Portrait in Contemporary Photography showcases the international selection of photographers and artists who in their artistic endeavour depict the deceased. By focusing on the dead body they question both their own perception as well as socially (un)acceptable notions regarding the concepts, meanings and representations of death in contemporary western society. Authors: AES+F, Goran Bertok, Marloes van Doorn, Elizabeth Heyert, Rudolf Schäfer, Walter Schels, Jeffrey Silverthorne Text: Jasna Jernejšek Publisher: Photon -- Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2016 Softcover, 44 pages Language: english, slovene Edition: 200 Dimension: 16 x 25 cm ISBN: 978-961-92744-5-3 -
A new, beautifully printed book celebrates a 30-year retrospective of his artwork. The over-sized book includes 248 pages of essays, interviews, and an abundance of photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was chosen as the ’Best Book of Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2008’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Famed Czech photographer Vladimir Zidlicky began his artistic career in the 1970s as a painter, but soon established a signature style that blurred the distinction between painting and photography. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Paul Bogaers, Jim Jordan, Lucia L. Fišerova Year: 2008 Hardcover, 248 pages Language: english, czech ISBN:978-80-254-2920-4 -
“When I was ten years old, I was playing with fire and I accidentally spilled gasoline on myself. My burns were severe, and I barely survived. It was extremely difficult, but when I became a father, I came to see that it must have been much harder on my parents than on myself. The fear of losing a child is so much greater then the fear of personal perish. However, losing a child is not just a physical thing. Separating from my wife after 21 years together reawakened the fear, and an avalanche of emotions buried me. These images are talking about loss and distance. These images are talking about bonds. These images are talking about photography as a bridge. These images are creating the past. These images speak of the fears and delights of being a father.” Author about photography series presented in this book. Author: Borut Peterlin Publisher: Self-published and coproduced by Photon – Centre for Contemporary Photography Year: 2017 Paperback, 120 pages, 500 copies Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 21 x 16,5 cm ISBN: 978-961-288-194-8 -
“Wahr genommen” is the title of Branko Lenart’s book, which summarizes his 25-year photographic oeuvre and is divided into various periods in a way suggestive of methodical thought. Lenart´s pun brings perception into proximity with truth and alludes to an aesthetic debate that has been of relevance to photography, on the question whether a technology capable of reproducing reality in even the most minute detail can also produce art with a claim to truthfulness. "Wahr genommen" - a pun involving the double meaning of "perceived" and "accepted as true". Author: Branko Lenart Editor: Kurt Kaindl Year: 1991 Hardcover, 176 pages Edition Fotohof Language: english, german Dimensions: 28 x 25 cm ISBN: 3-7013-0817-9 -
Živkovič grew up in the industrial town of Trbovlje, the centre of the mining industry in Slovenia, which significantly influenced his artistic endeavours. In his work h focuses on capturing places, stories, and motifs related to industrial towns. His oeuvre is characterised by poetic documentation of abandoned industrial landscapes. Author: Antonio Živkovič Publisher: Mestna galerija Ljubljana Year: 2009 Softcover, 104 pages 500 copies Language: english, slovene Dimensions: 24 x 24 cm ISBN: 978-961-6587-61-7 -
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In his limited photographic monograph entitled The Present, Peter Koštrun captures the quiet atmosphere of the countryside in the immediate vicinity of his home. Pastoral motifs are composed in a way of intriguing poetry that is - wrapped in a misty veil of gently lit countryside - receptive to mystical wanderings and silent contemplation. The photo book is available only in edition of 20! Author of photographs: Peter Koštrun Author of text: Dejan Sluga Publisher: self-published Year: 2013 Hardcover, 44 pages Dimensions: 33 x 33 cm Language: english, sloveneFOR ORDERS FROM OUTSIDE OF SLOVENIA PLEASE SEND US EMAIL ON info@photon.si
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Tanja Verlak (1979) received her PhD from the Royal College of Art in London. Through ontological and phenomenological models of the photographic image, she examined the relationship between the indexical image and its iconic or imaginary aspects. She conducted part of her research at the renowned British interdisciplinary research institution The British School at Rome. In 2021, she received a prestigious Fulbright grant and was invited by MoCP – The Museum of Contemporary Photography and Columbia University in Chicago to work as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She is a recipient of a Zois scholarship and other awards and fellowships, including the Royal College of Art Research Bursary and the TATA Grant. She has twice been honoured with the Slovenian Photography of the Year Award. She has exhibited at home and abroad (AIPAD, New York, Paris Photo, Texas Contemporary Art Fair Houston, Tate Modern (Offprint), GoEun Museum of Photography, Moderna galerija Ljubljana, Maribor Art Gallery). In Slovenia she has recently exhibited at ZRC SAZU and at the Nova Gorica City Gallery. Her works are part of national and international art collections and were recently auctioned by Sotheby's. This work is part of a photographic folder or portfolio box with twenty prints by renowned Slovenian photographic artists from the 1970s to the present day, published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Photon Gallery. - The edition is 100 copies, the 40 x 50 cm photographs are printed on archival paper, the prints are signed and accompanied by certificates. -
Roberto Kusterle (1948, Gorizia) has been active in the field of visual art since the 1970s, initially taking up painting and installation work. In the late 1980s, he became interested in photography, which soon became the main medium for his artistic expression. In his work, he focuses on the themes of continuality and connectivity between the human, animal and the natural world. His artistic style encompasses elements of the unusual, bizarre and the surreal. His photographs are not documentary in nature, but are figments of his imagination; the objects, people and the worlds depicted do not exist in reality and typically serve as the basis for his photography. He has been actively exhibiting throughout Italy, Slovenia and internationally since 1988. During this time he has participated in more than 90 solo exhibitions and more than 140 group exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibitions include Habitados at the Museo de la Memoria Històrica Universitaria, Publa, Mexico (2020), the 20e èdition du Festival Europèen de Photo de Nu, Church Sainte-Anne, Arles (2020), Echo, Galleria Weber & Weber, Turin (2021), and series Echo and Cartacei at the Photon Gallery in Ljubljana and Vienna (2023). During his artistic career, he has published 15 monographs. This work is part of a photographic folder or portfolio box with twenty prints by renowned Slovenian photographic artists from the 1970s to the present day, published on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Photon Gallery. - The edition is 100 copies, the 40 x 50 cm photographs are printed on archival paper, the prints are signed and accompanied by certificates. -
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„In today’s world, sweating is taboo. Enter “sweat” into any search engine and you’ll find a multitude of ways to remedy it. The huge array of deodorants available commercially is an indication of just how unacceptable sweating is in everyday life. Sweat is embarrassing: a sign of poor hygiene. Body odor is ‘disgusting’. Faces cringe when confronted with it. Even as far back as the Bible, sweat was equated with hardship. When Adam was expelled by God, for example, he was condemned thenceforth to earn his daily bread By the Sweat of His Brow (Genesis 3, 19). Sweat may well owe a good part of its poor reputation to its anti-social stench, but it also has negative connotations due to its association with fear. A sweaty handshake betrays nervousness. When you wake up bathed in sweat at night, it’s more likely due to nightmares or anxiety than to faulty air conditioning. Photographer Reiner Riedler has discovered sweat as an artistic form of expression.Fascinated by the image captured by the sweat on his T-shirt after jogging – like a spontaneous self-portrait – he has used the sweat produced by others to create a series of images. In order to achieve this, he approached the renowned Fraunhofer Institute in Munich which provided him with a special sensory material that could be placed above or underneath his perspiring models. In doing so, Riedler used the sweaty body as a kind of rubber stamp to create life-size negatives. He then photographed these and transformed them into monochrome paper prints.“- Vreni Hockenjos, Excerpt from the book
Photographs: Reiner Riedler Texts: Vreni Hockenjos Graphic design: Tapir Design / Ania Nalecka-Milach Publisher: Reflektor Year: 2019 Hardcover, linen, 104 pages Language: English Dimensions: 24 x 30,5 cm
ISBN: 978-3-9502450-9-7
