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Stane Jagodič (1943) has been active in various fields, media and contexts of visual art since the mid-sixties. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1970, he soon became one of the most active and prominent artists in Yugoslavia, due to his distinguishable artistic expression. In his continuously developing body of work, he has adopted several different concepts of artistic production using various artistic media such as photography, painting, graphics, cartoons, performance, assemblages and object art (installations). Since 1967, Stane Jagodič has been exploring artistic photography and some of its creative derivates like photomontage and photo collage, which are the most significant in his artistic production. Stane Jagodič was a co-founder and conceptual leader of Grupa Junij, active between 1970 and 1985. The group worked as a broad artistic platform that included a number of prominent local and international artists. As an independent artist, Stane Jagodič participated in more than 50 solo and more than 200 group exhibitions worldwide. He lives and works in Ljubljana. To accompany the exhibition Why? at the Photon Gallery, which is on view from November 6, 2025 to January 23, 2026, we have prepared a short offer of limited edition prints from the Stane Jagodič collection. -
Stane Jagodič (1943) has been active in various fields, media and contexts of visual art since the mid-sixties. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1970, he soon became one of the most active and prominent artists in Yugoslavia, due to his distinguishable artistic expression. In his continuously developing body of work, he has adopted several different concepts of artistic production using various artistic media such as photography, painting, graphics, cartoons, performance, assemblages and object art (installations). Since 1967, Stane Jagodič has been exploring artistic photography and some of its creative derivates like photomontage and photo collage, which are the most significant in his artistic production. Stane Jagodič was a co-founder and conceptual leader of Grupa Junij, active between 1970 and 1985. The group worked as a broad artistic platform that included a number of prominent local and international artists. As an independent artist, Stane Jagodič participated in more than 50 solo and more than 200 group exhibitions worldwide. He lives and works in Ljubljana. To accompany the exhibition Why? at the Photon Gallery, which is on view from November 6, 2025 to January 23, 2026, we have prepared a short offer of limited edition prints from the Stane Jagodič collection. -
Stane Jagodič (1943) has been active in various fields, media and contexts of visual art since the mid-sixties. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1970, he soon became one of the most active and prominent artists in Yugoslavia, due to his distinguishable artistic expression. In his continuously developing body of work, he has adopted several different concepts of artistic production using various artistic media such as photography, painting, graphics, cartoons, performance, assemblages and object art (installations). Since 1967, Stane Jagodič has been exploring artistic photography and some of its creative derivates like photomontage and photo collage, which are the most significant in his artistic production. Stane Jagodič was a co-founder and conceptual leader of Grupa Junij, active between 1970 and 1985. The group worked as a broad artistic platform that included a number of prominent local and international artists. As an independent artist, Stane Jagodič participated in more than 50 solo and more than 200 group exhibitions worldwide. He lives and works in Ljubljana. To accompany the exhibition Why? at the Photon Gallery, which is on view from November 6, 2025 to January 23, 2026, we have prepared a short offer of limited edition prints from the Stane Jagodič collection. -
Henrik is a magazine and platform dedicated to documentary and contemporary photography, offering a rare printed space for visual storytelling in a time when such opportunities are becoming increasingly scarce. It provides photographers with the chance to tell meaningful stories that blend topical relevance, a refined visual language and a distinctly personal approach. As a one-of-a-kind publication in Slovenia and the broader region, Henrik brings a breath of fresh air and offers a much-needed stage for creative voices.The first issue revolves around the theme of Trials. Ana Šuligoj shares a deeply personal account of losing her mother due to asbestos exposure, while Robert Marin and Sergej Harlamov delve into the metaphorical and literal underground - a refuge for those seeking meaning. Eva Bevec uses visual language to explore the quiet presence of the banal and the absurd as a subtle reflection of today’s struggles. Ivan Tomašević offers a moving meditation on the Croatian war veteran community through the lens of his father’s story, while Meta Krese presents Hazira’s powerful testimony from a survivor camp following the Srebrenica genocide.
Photographers: Ana Šuligoj, Robert Marin, Meta Krese, Eva Bevec, Ivan Tomašević
Editors: Nik Erik Neubauer, Jaka Teršek
Designer: Žiga AnderličLanguage: English, Slovenian Size: 43 x 30 cm, 64 pages Binding: twin-loop binding Publisher: Društvo Študio, 2025Print run: 500 -
Belgrade Raw is a photo collective founded in 2009 with the idea to explore social, urban and political aspects of city life through the photographic medium. They actively record everyday Belgrade and the state of its community. Belgrade Raw exhibited their work on various occasions, as solo shows in galleries or as part of local and international festivals. They organized a photo fair for five years in a row, while in the period of four consecutive years they have initiated a series of workshops dedicated solely to documentary photography, entitled serbia raw. The collective also published the serbia raw photo book, in which they assembled all the materials produced by the participants in 13 serbian cities. To mark the collective’s 15th birthday, they created a fanzine that they released during their exhibition ‘Two Days Three Nights‘ at Prostor Gallery in Novi Sad, Serbia. Members of the belgrade raw collective are: Darko Stanimirović, Nemanja Knežević, Luka Knežević – strika, Milovan Milenković, Andrej Filev, Aleksandra Mihajlović, Mane Radmanović, Dušan Rajić, Jelena Mijić, and Saša Trifunović. 40 pages 18,5 x 27,5 cm digital print Full color on glossy coated paper 180gr -
NEW!In breathtaking, wide-angle photographs, Christoph Grill (b. 1965) documents the post-Perestroika development of the 15 former Soviet countries: Albania, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, the Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Emphasising the empty space around their subjects, Grill’s colour and black-and-white images are distinctly unsentimental portraits of everyday life - children playing amid the ruins of communist utopias, triumphal arches now surrounded by rubble, grass growing in the cracks of military parade grounds, ramshackle dwellings bandaged up with planks of plywood. Not all of these scenes are desolate, however, and cheerier portraits of persons encountered on Grill’s travels, improvising their fun in makeshift swimming pools or along roadsides punctuate the more sober depictions of post-Soviet life. Handsomely clothbound and printed, Short Stalks at Distant Shores records how these states not only underwent renewal but also had to endure economic standstill and regression; it also testifies to the human will to survive amid the bleakest of conditions. Publisher: Hatje Cantz Translation: Laura Schleussner Graphic Design: Elke Ederer, Christoph Grill ISBN: 978-3-7757-3398-4 -
WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM FOREIGN WORKERS? Anna Fabricius has been researching the changing cultural and personality-shaping role of work for years and is currently investigating the increasingly common transnational family relationships resulting from the global division of labour. She has been collaborating with workers from the Far East (Nepal, Myanmar Thailand, Philippines, India), like Insiyatul Urbayanti, who have been employed for shorter or longer periods in agriculture or in the manufacturing industry. The majority of them are young, poor men and women whose daily lives are charac-terised by restricted freedom of movement, strict daily schedules and low wages. There is a constant migration of labour between the poorer and richer regions of the world, and Hungary is also involved in this exchange both as host and exporter. The project titled "Home Is Where Work Is" addresses some of the most pressing issues of our time, where the discourse on human rights is accompanied by restrictive immigration regulations. In this respect, the title of the project carries several mean-ings. We can conceive of work as an instrument of power that forces people to leave their homes, determines their living spaces, their daily rhythms and their personal relationships. The title also addresses the insecurities of the transitory situation in which one cannot feel at home in their place of birth or in their place of work. Lastly, it refers to the dilemmas between moneymaking work and care work to maintain the family home, and thus to the tensions between the economy, society and the reproduction of culture. Тext: Judit Csatlós, Tibor Meszmann Translation: Dániel Sipos Graphic Design: Adrienn Császar Printing House: EPC ISBN: 978-615-02-1329-3 -
Vladimír Birgus is a photographer, curator, historian of photography, professor and head of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. As early as the early 1980s, he was one of the first Czech photographers who tried to make thoughtful use of the emotional and psychological effects of colour in subjectively conceived documentary images, which were produced in parallel with his black and white work. Birgus's photographs in the book are accompanied by only brief information about the year and place of their creation; the various ways of interpretation are entirely up to the viewer and their willingness to mentally engage. As the years pass, his works are more and more accompanied by the motif of melancholy and the principle of counterpoint, striving for the surrealism of impressive scenery as well as the application of metaphor and symbolism. In many confrontations of people with their environment or in response to various coexisting stories, exposed in a split second in the scenery of the lived present, he alienates the micro-stories of human existence. Photos: Vladimír Birgus Text: Štěpánka Bieleszová Translation: Derek & Marzia Paton Design: Petr Šmalec Publisher: KANT in cooperation with the Olomouc Museum of Art Hardcover, 179 pages ISBN-10:8087149750 ISBN-13: 978-8087149751 -
Nicole Brandstaetter (2001) is a Vienna-based artist whose work spans the fields of photography, storytelling, fashion and design. Since 2019, her photographic practice has been driven by a relentless pursuit of aesthetics, capturing the intricate interplay between visual appeal and narrative depth. Her public recognition began in 2020 with exhibitions at prestigious venues such as the Academy of Fine Arts. With a background in photography and audiovisual studies, her distinctive style and thematic exploration has been featured in various online magazines and recognized by designers in Vienna and the wider German-speaking community. The artist, who grew up in two different cultures - Austrian and American - is deeply intrigued by themes such as self-expression, transience and longing. These interests feed into her work, adding layers of meaning and resonance that invite the viewer to engage with the deeper narratives woven into her photographs. Her ability to integrate design and fashion into her photography has created a powerful visual language that captures the essence of contemporary artistic expression. In the photograph, rain pours down on the lens of my camera, creating this beautiful and abstract image of a silhouette in a white dress in the city of Milan. Amidst the dark streets, the glow of distant streetlights resembles a scattering of luminous dots. - Edition of 6 prints, sized 20x30 and printed on semi-Matt archival paper. -
NEW!Siren Odyssey - A voyage through the 11 frequencies of: 728, 741, 285, 417, 396, 174, 639, 528, 825, 963 and 432, making up the alphabet of our E@motion evolution. Could they be the alphabet of our emotional evolution? The in-between links or the errors – the DNA junk? Are our emotions evolutional junk, the potential of our evolution? Syren Oddissey is an audio visualization of my Periodic Table of Shadowed Emotions, the result of Eva's project Gr@y Matter – Language of Shadows. Frequencies of pitch have been associated with different moods, and the earth and the human body have different resonant frequencies associated with them. For the individual selected frequencies in Siren Odyssey, Eva tried to find textures and grooves that complemented the particular frequencies that were presented to her. The sounds you hear are all tuned to be consonant with the base frequency and therefore should amplify the feeling associated with that particular frequency. Vinyl record in sleeve. Text: Dr.Thomas Miessgang Vocals, lyrics, sound, composition and concept: Eva Petrič Sound production and synthesizer: Mydeck 2000 NYC Scene: installation of recycled lace assemblages by Eva Petrič Video projections: Eva Petrič Performance: Eva Petrič An A4 fine art print of all the shadow images is added, representing the 11 frequencies. -
NEW!What will our world be like without emotions, and will anyone even miss them? This question, provoked by the concern that life in current circumstances of constant digital connectivity and instant “likes” and emoticons” is heading into a state where emotions are increasingly losing their role and are retreating into cliches, has motivated the visual artist and author Eva Petrič to create ”@apple girl story 2 ; to be a shadow or a puppet…”. The multilayered story and its book is a hybrid by its content as well as its form. It is a hybrid of a literary story, switching between a fairytale and a contemporary email dairy, and the visual dictionary of emotions among which many are on the brink of extinction. The text itself is a hybrid mitigating between images and sentences, spread out over paper of different colors in ways where sentences form visual images. By depicting figures in their material forms of bodies as well as in their immaterial forms as shadows, the book enables viewers various ways of perception and possibilities of creating one’s own stories. Eva Petrič is a transmedia artist, known for her creative use of photography, interweaving with other media, exploring with it the language of shadows, decoding our existence on ephemeral levels. Her motivation to expose the multidimensional architecture of space, defined by atmosphere, lead her to apply a trans medial approach in her art. Author: Eva Petrič Foreword: Olga Butinar Čeh 23 cm x 23 cm 358 pages, hardcover -
Big Sur Real. In his latest book project, Branko Lenart has focused on the process of choice as a creative act. He has collected 119 photographs from 1970 to 2020 under the title "BIG SUR REAL". Branko Lenart (1948, Ptuj, Slovenia) was born in the former Yugoslavia, but his family emigrated to nearby Austria when he was six years old. He studied pedagogy in Graz and in 1968 became a member of the photography section of the Graz art association Forum Stadtpark, from which Camera Austria later emerged. Until 2007 he was active as a lecturer in photography at the Graz Higher State School of Art and Design (1979 - 2007) and at the Joanneum University of Applied Sciences in Graz (1996 - 2003). Lenart is an internationally renowned photographer who has travelled extensively around the world since his youth, often staying at artist residencies such as the Apeiron Workshops in Millerton, New York, La Rochelle, Arles, Oxford, Rome, Paris and London. His oeuvre is divided between documentary and conceptual auteur photography. He has paid particular attention to the social periphery, to members of the former urban counterculture or rural society, and has coined the term "subjective topography" for this type of photography. Photographs by Branko Lenart Editor: Günther Friesinger Selection of reproductions: Janez Korošin, Primož Lampič Text: Marjeta Ciglenečki, Günther Holler-Schuster Readings: Bokmal Read by Evelyn Fürlinger Year of publication: 2023 Hardcover, 152 pages ISBN: 978-3-902796-89-9
