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NEW!The book is a tribute to portrait photography, enriched with interviews with individuals who create excellence and strengthen the positive energy of the city. The subjects reveal fragments of their personal experiences, creative processes, and lives in general. Each of them has made a profound mark on their field, be it theater, music, visual arts, or urban culture. What they all have in common is that they raise the cultural capital of the city. Because of them, Maribor is truly a Vunderkind - Katja Gönc Publisher: Visual communications, Sami Abder Rahim Author(s) of the text(s): Marko Radmilovič, Jaša Lorenčič, Uroš Dokl, Katja Gönc Year of publication: 2022 Dimensions and number of pages: 215 × 285 × 30 / 312 pages Hardcover -
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 -
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 -
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 -
NEW!Catalogue of the international curated exhibition Borderlines. The exhibition raises the question of borders – both physical and symbolic – in a specific local, as well as in a broader European context, where political conflicts, wars, migrations and other social transformations have once again brought the concept of borders to the forefront. The border appears as a physical dividing line, but also as a social, psychological and cultural construct that determines the relationships between “us” and “them”, normal and different, safe and threatening. The project presents artists from Slovenia, Italy and Austria, whose works, through contemporary photography, thematize different understandings of borderland in various ways. The exhibition combines documentary, conceptual and performative approaches and brings diverse insights into contemporary European photography. Its added value lies in the fact that it does not only thematize borders in a geographical sense, but also places them in broader contexts of social, psychological and identity relations. In this way, the Borderlines / Borderlands project creates a space for dialogue about our common future at a time when Europe is facing ever-new forms of division. Curator(s): Dejan Sluga, Nataša Kovšca Author(s): Dejan Sluga, Nataša Kovšca Publisher: GONG Gallery – Institute for the Promotion of Contemporary Art, Photon Gallery Translation: Arven Šakti Kralj Proofreading: Anja Mugerli (SLO), Ksenija Vidic (ENG) Design: Blaž Erzetič Printing: 250 Year of publication: 2025 Number of pages: 62 -
NEW!A representative bilingual catalogue of the exhibition Stane Jagodič: Restless Eye brings together key texts, a rich selection of works, and the distinctive design of Kabinet 01 studio. The catalogue accompanying the survey exhibition Restless Eye at the City Art Gallery Ljubljana offers a comprehensive insight into more than six decades of creation by one of the most intriguing Slovenian artists. The publication features essential texts by curators Barbara Sterle Vurnik and Dejan Sluga, and by art historian Dr. Lev Menaše, illuminating Jagodič’s rich interdisciplinary practice – from drawing, photomontage and X-ray art to performance and complex assemblages. In addition to documenting the exhibition layout, the catalogue includes an extensive selection of reproductions of key works from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, revealing artistic breakthroughs, influences of historical avant-gardes and the artist’s distinctly socially critical stance. A particular value of the catalogue lies in the meticulously crafted design by Studio Kabinet 01, led by Jan Jagodič, whose thoughtful visual rhythm and contemporary graphic language complement the conceptual character of the exhibition. This representative bilingual catalogue is intended for both experts and lovers of contemporary art – an essential companion to one of the most important presentations of Jagodič’s oeuvre to date. Published by: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana / City Art Gallery Ljubljana Editors: Barbara Sterle Vurnik, dr. Sarival Sosič Texts: Barbara Sterle Vurnik, dr. Lev Menaše, Dejan Sluga English translation and proofreading: Arven Šakti Kralj Slovenian proofreading: Mirjam Furlan Lapanja Design and layout: Hana Jesih, Kabinet 01 Printed by: Collegium Graphicum d. o. o., Ljubljana Print run: 230 December, 2025 -
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 -
Ana Bilankov's first comprehensive monograph and at the same time an artist's book is structurally conceived as a kind of experimental film, a non-chronological 'storyboard' of her conceptual art works made in the media photography, video / experimental film, installation and text in the last twenty years. Structured into ten chapters, the book raises a series of questions on the subject of poetics/politics of dislocation, migration, nomadism, individual and collective memory and construction of identity within "in-between-ness". Many projects have emerged in diverse geographic contexts thanks to several international residencies in different European cities, Moscow and New York, or in both of the author's hometowns, Zagreb and Berlin. The book includes rich photographic and video material as well as the texts written by the author and also two theoretical essays: "Some Future Film" by the art theorist Leonida Kovač and "The Poetry and Revolution of Ana Bilankov" by the film theorist and philosopher Marijan Krivak, and has been designed by Hamper studio Zagreb. Author: Ana Bilankov Publisher: Hamper studio Zagreb Year: 2019 Hard cover, 223 pages Language: English, Croatian Dimensiones: 29 x 23 cm ISBN: 978-953-48548-0-8 -
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 -
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SALE!The photographic monograph Janez Korošin - People and Landscapes (black and white photographs 1960-2015) by Primož Lampič provides an overview of the work of photographer Janez Korošin. Janez Korošin (1935, Ljubljana) started taking photographs at the age of 17 in the Fotoklub Ravne na Koroškem under the mentorship of František Kamnik. He worked as a chemical technician at the Ravne Ironworks, and after completing his military service he joined the Jože Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, where he met the renowned photographer Marjan Smerket, who introduced him to exhibition photography. He began to work more seriously as a photographer in the mid-1960s. In 1966, he became a member of the Fotoklub Ljubljana and Fotogrupa Šolt, which merged in 1968 to form Fotogrupa Ljubljana Šolt, where some of the most prominent local photographers of the time worked. Later he also became a member of the Slovenian Photographers' Association. He has also received numerous international awards and prizes for his photographic work. In 1977, the Photographic Association of Yugoslavia awarded him the title of Master of Photography, and in 1996, the Photographic Association of Slovenia honoured him with the Janez Puhar Lifetime Achievement in Photography Award. In 2000, he was awarded the title "FIAP Excellency" by the International Photographic Association FIAP. "Because of photography's primary ability to record visible reality as the eye does, realism is always relevant in the medium. It is also the foundation of Korošinov's work. I hardly find any radical interventions in his work. -
NEW!A Manual for Silence is a photo-text booklet based on an ongoing sequence of photographs bearing the same title. Images may tell the narrative, the testimony, via its absence — the vacancy of the subject. Text conjures images by beleaguering the unspeakable — pasting words and sentences onto the invisible form until it reveals a wireframe of the object.
Perhaps there — behind this impediment, the existence of it all is to be found. In the failed correspondence of mumbling planes and shards of breached conventions. In the imminent erosion of understanding, solely a silent touch can soothe.
Author: Rene Maurin Publisher: Generator Year: 2019 Hard cover, 112 pages Edition: 300 copies Language: English Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm ISBN: 9789612907303 -
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 -
Exhibiton catalogue of the project UNADAPTED OBSERVERS. Outsiders and Outlaws. During socialism, the status, function, and aesthetics of photography were remarkably similar across all former socialist countries. In the Central European countries that were part of the socialist bloc, there was also a unique collective organisation in the field of photography, as most photographers worked within the system of photography clubs. However, some photographers have worked outside the system and independently, some because of a particular approach to their work, others because of censorship or even a ban on their work. The exhibition project »Outsiders and Outlaws« focuses on those photographers who stood out from the mainstream of photographic production in the former socialist countries. Participating artists: Andrzej Baturo (PL), Vladimir Birgus (CZ), Stane Jagodič (SI), Gábor Kerekes (HU), Ladislav Postupa (CZ), Rudolf Sikora (SK), Tone Stojko (SI), János Szász (HU), Bálint Szombathy (HU), Jindrich Streit (CZ) Publisher and producer: Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Curator, editor and author of the text: Dejan Sluga Design: Jure Legac Proof-reading: Deja Bečaj Printing: Birografika Bori Edition: 200 -
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SALE!Around thirty years ago, major social changes took place in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). During that time, some countries of the former socialist bloc also declared their independence. Slovenia was among them. On the occasion of celebrating thirty years of independence, we in Photon asked ourselves how photography recorded the time before these turning points – in the lives of ordinary people. With this exhibition project, we are not interested in fateful historical events and great personalities, but we want to offer an insight into everyday life and present some contradictions of the social system that built on a utopian vision of the future. To revisit the “family albums” of the former socialist countries, we are presenting some important photographers from the CEE region, who documented life in Eastern Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. All of them, even with different formal and aesthetic starting points, share a subjective and often humorous view of banal and absurd everyday life.
Editor: Dejan Sluga Authors of the texts: Dejan Sluga, Dr. Primož Lampič Participating artists: Andrzej Baturo, Vladimir Birgus, Janez Korošin, Branko Lenart, Zora Plešnar, Anton Podstraský, János Szász, Lenke Sziláryi. Design: Jure Legac Translators: Melita Silič, Deja Bečaj Publisher: Photon - Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2021 Hardcopy, 71 pages Edition: 200 copies Language: English, Slovene Dimensions: 21 x 21 cm
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This exhibition catalogue encompasses three editions, of the exhibition project Concrete Dreams, presenting works by 19 photographers. It explores the heritage of industrial development conveyed through the photographic medium. In a narrower sense, the project explores how certain artists in the visual field see this heritage today and how they accept it as material for their artistic projects from the perspective of aesthetic relevance. In a broader sense, it also looks at how the photographic medium today can reflect the broader contexts of a particular place and time, which in post-war 20th century Europe promoted the development of industry and thus of certain architecture, which today is mostly abandoned or torn down or has changed its function. Authors: Dejan Sluga, Sonja Ifko Editors: Dejan Sluga and Špela Pipan Publisher: Galerija Photon Year: 2020 Hardcover, 72 pages Language: English, Slovenian ISBN: 978-961-95107-0-4 -
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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 -
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SALE!Authors: Dragan Teodorović - Zeko Publisher: GMR Year of publishing: 2022 Hard cover, 141 pages Dimention: 26 cm ISBN: 9788690459001 Naklada: 50 -
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SALE!The Red Poppy Fields project aims to reflect on turbulent European history and causal relationship between ideology and economy, politics and war. It is examining causes and consequences for/of the World War I and its broader social, political and economic implications. Focusing on the photographic medium the curators and artists are presenting different views and draw parallels between past and present. The project brought together partners from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Associated curators: Michaela Bosakova (Bratislava), Katarzyna Majak (Warszaw) and Gabriella Uhl (Budapest). Curators: Dejan Sluga, Miha Colner Editors: Dejan Sluga, Miha Colner Partners: Galerija Photon, Cankarjev Dom, Baltic Gallery, Central European House of Photography, Association of Hungarian Photographers Publisher: Photon Year: 2017 Print run: 300 Hardcover, 123 pages Dimenzije: 24 x 21 cm Language: English ISBN: 978-961-92744-6-0 -
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SALE!Author: Stanko Abadžić Publisher: Kadar36 Year: 2017 Hardcover, 160 pages Language: english, croatian Dimenzije: 29 x 26 cm ISBN: 978-953-57655-9-2 -
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SALE!Stone Marks is the latest photo book by Roberto Kusterle, a Slovenian-Italian artist, who is devoted to non-representational photography as he preserves a kind of picturesque style, which always contains elements of odd, bizarre, surrealist. His photography does not document, but is a complete invention; it creates miz-an-scenes both in the studio and outside. Authors: Guido Cecere, Roberto Kusterle Publisher: Punto marte & Photon – Center za sodobno fotografijo Year: 2012 Hardback, 87 pages Dimensions: 28,5 x 28,5 cm Language: italian, english ISBN: 978-88-95157-38-2 -
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SALE!Author: Stanko Abadžić Publisher: Kadar36 Year: 2017 Hardcover, 160 pages Language: english, croatian Dimenzije: 29 x 26 cm ISBN: 978-953-57655-9 -
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SALE!A tribute to the 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus What is the significance of photo collage in these modern times saturated with fragmented visual images and the ubiquitous "special effects" of new technologies? Has this artistic process preserved its aesthetic relevance from the time of its creation about 100 years ago? An empirical view across the landscape of contemporary art provides a feeling that the interest in a collage in contemporary art has been growing again. Particularly in photography, works have been created that re-enforce the collage principle in the wider original contemporary practice. Project A New Vision of Debris is trying to answer the initial questions by presenting ten positions of regionally established female and male artists. At the same time, the project is an homage to the fabled Bauhaus school, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of its establishment this year, primarily to some of its protagonists who have taught photography and have established photo collage as a new and legitimate artistic practice. Authors of the text: Dejan Sluga, Katarina Manojlović Curator: Dejan Sluga Participating artists: Alexandra Baumgartner, Caroline Heider, Herbert Hofer, Marko Lipuš, Lilly Lulay, Iosif Kiraly, Kensuke Koike, Zuzana Pustaiova, Anita Witek, Metka Zupančič Editor: Špela Pipan Publisher and producer: Galerija Photon Year : 2018 Paperback, 35 pages Language: english, slovenian -
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The History of European Photography (1900 – 2000) is an international research project spanning the whole of Europe. The project’s main aim was to publish an encyclopaedia in English, divided into three volumes / periods, volume 1: 1900 - 1938, volume 2: 1939-1970, volume 3: 1971 - 2000. Each volume of the encyclopaedia is organized alphabetically by country. A study on the history of photography in each country is written by an expert on photography from that country. Alongside the main studies, each book contains extensive additional material, biographies of mentioned photographers, and timetables marking cultural, socio-political and technical photographic events in each country for a given period. There are be two types of indices in each book - an index of mentioned photographers and an index of other historical names and subjects. The book was published with a print run of 5000 copies per volume, each of the six volumes containing approximately 600 pages.
The price of one volume is 199,00€.Editor: Václav Macek Project Manager: Michaela Bosáková
Publisher: Central European House of Photography; FOTOFO and Eyes ON - Month of Photography Vienna www.sedf.sk ; www.eyes-on.at Year of publication: vol.1 2000,vol.2 2014, vol.3 2016 Hardcover Dimensions: 40 x 30 x 8 cm Weight: 4,5 kg Language: English
ISBN: Vol.1 978-80-85739-55-8 vol.2 978-80-85739-66-4 vol.3 978-80-85739-70-1
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SALE!An exclusive monograph of Vladimír Zidlicky presents his color photographs from the years 2007 - 2009. This beautifully printed book includes 100 pages of essays, interviews, and 95 photographs in groupings that are presented in chronological order. Essays and texts appear in Czech and English. This book was again chosen as the ’Best Book of Contemporary Photography for Central and Eastern Europe in 2010’ by an international jury in Bratislava. Author of photographs: Vladimir Židlicky Editors: Miroslav Ambroz, David Židlicky Authors of text: Josef Moucha, Natasha Christia, Eric Min Year: 2009 Hardcover, 100 pages Language: english, czech ISBN: 978-80-254-6364-2
