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Roman Bezjak (1962) studied photography in Dortmund. From 1989 to 1999 he worked on photo essays worldwide for the magazine of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and other German print media. In 1996, he won the German Photography Award. In 2000, he was appointed professor of photography at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, where he has been a dean since 2014. Between 2005 and 2011, he produced the work Archaeology of an Era, Images on Socialist Postwar Modernism. From 2011, Roman Bezjak presented his work in numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Sprengel Museum, Hannover and at the GoEun Museum of Photography, Busan, South Korea. He participated in exhibitions at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, the Architekturzentrum Wien, and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Bezjak published his works in photo books: Socialist Modernism published by Hatje Cantz in 2011, this was followed by further works on Socialist Modernism in Pyongyang (2013) and Tashkent (2017–2019) and its revision and reshaping in Skopje (2019). 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. -
Goran Bertok (1963) graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Sociology, Political Sciences and Journalism in Ljubljana. In his early career, he focused on the creation of staged scenes with motifs of unconventional sexual practices, especially from the field of sadomasochism (series Omen, Stigmata, etc.) and later turned to a more radical exploration of physicality. This soon led him to the ultimate theme – the physical death. He devoted much of his work to this topic, both through direct visual confrontation with decaying bodies (Post Mortem, Visitors), as well as through the portraiture of those who experienced immediate proximity to death (Survivors). In his artistic career spanning over almost three decades, his work has been included in many important solo and group exhibitions both at home and abroad. Most recently in the group exhibition Et nos morts? Post-mortem photography in Europe today at the Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, Gentilly, France (2023) and REALIZE! RESIST! REACT! Performance and Politics in the 1990s in the Post-Yugoslav Context at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (2021). Recent solo exhibitions include the The End, First Rehearsal at the Old Power Station, Ljubljana (2023) and Hunger at the Photon Gallery in Ljubljana and Vienna (2020) and at the Simulaker Gallery in Novo Mesto (2021). 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. -
Uroš Acman (1982) graduated in photography at FAMU, Prague in 2003. He later continued his studies on a post-graduate level at École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (Écal) in Switzerland, where he graduated in 2008. He currently teaches photography at the Secondary School for Design and Photography (SŠOF) in Ljubljana. His works have been shown in several group exhibitions in Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. His solo exhibitions include the series Museums in the Simulaker Gallery (2008) and the Škuc Gallery in Ljubljana (2009) which documents the so-called hunting rooms and spaces. More recently, his series Night was shown in the group exhibition Without Borders? Boundless Invisible Walls, which travelled from Fotogalerie Rathaus Graz to Galerie Photon in Ljubljana and Bad Radkersburg on the Austrian-Slovenian border. 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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SALE!The group exhibition at the Photon Gallery presents the activities of the photographic group “Fotogrupa ŠOLT” (Photo Group ŠOLT) on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its foundation in 1963. It focuses on the period after the merger with Photo Club Ljubljana in 1968, when the group began to operate under the name “Fotogrupa ŠOLT – Ljubljana” (Photo Group ŠOLT – Ljubljana). The exhibition examines the importance of the group’s impact on the photographic scene in Ljubljana and Slovenia and presents its diverse international activities. It also highlights the photographic approaches of the 1960s and 1970s in the choice of motifs and techniques of the exhibited artists. The exhibition catalogue contains a selection of photographs and archival material shown in the exhibition, as well as two longer introductory texts. Presented are the works of seven photographers and members of the group, who were awarded the title of “Master of Photography” by the Photographic Association of Yugoslavia due to their high artistic and technical perfection and their frequent international exhi bitions. These are Oskar Karel Dolenc, Janez Korošin, Tihomir Pinter, Marjan Smerke, Tone Stojko, Jendo Štoviček and Joco Žnidaršič. The exhibition also includes the works of Sonja Zalar Bizjak, the only female representative of the group who received the title of “Master Candidate”. It is important to mention that in the more than thirty years of its existence, the Photo Group ŠOLT group has had a large number of members, among whom are other outstanding Slovenian photographers such as Dragan Arrigler, Marjan Dobovšek, Milan Pajk, Andrej Perko, Janez Pukšič, Lado Jakša, Herman Pivk and Arne Hodalič and many others. Stojan Kerbler, who later joined the Maribor Circle, should certainly be mentioned as one of the founding members. Publisher: Photon Curator: Špela Pipan Editor: Špela Pipan Authors of text: ddr. Damir Globočnik, Špela Pipan, Dejan Sluga Translation: Deja Bečaj, Špela Pipan Proofreading: Deja Bečaj Design: Jure Legac Print: R-Tisk, Junij 2003 Editions: 300
