Interview For The Caprice Magazine

1.WHAT INSPIRED YOU IN THE BEGIN­NING TO PICK UP A CAM­ERA AND SHOOT WHAT YOU DO?

The rea­son to pick up the cam­era was very per­sonal. Because of the change of edu­ca­tional sys­tem in my coun­try I had to stop my phi­los­o­phy phd stud­ies. So, for me pho­tog­ra­phy is phi­los­o­phy in terms of visual communication.

2.WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A PAR­TIC­U­LAR SHOT?

To be hon­est it depends from shot to shot. But in gen­eral I am mostly focused on basic rela­tion­ship between the visual ele­ments. I also like to com­bine dif­fer­ent com­mon objects in mean­ing­ful visual sentences.

3.HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN INTO PHOTOGRAPHY?

I’ve been seri­ously into pho­tog­ra­phy for 3 years now

4.WHAT “KIND” OF PHOTOGRAPHER WOULD YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF?

I try to be focused on sur­round­ings rather than to myself.

5.DO YOU HAVE ANY FAVOURITE PHOTOGRAPHERS THAT YOU LOOK UP TO OR THAT INSPIRE YOU?

Always when pho­tograph­ing I try to for­get images in my head. But of course there are pho­tog­ra­phers which I deeply respect and admire: Gilbert Garcin, Peter Keet­man, Philip Hals­man, Hel­mut New­ton, Her­bert List, and others.

6.WHAT MAKES YOU TAKE AN INTEREST IN ANOTHER PERSON’S PHOTOGRAPHY?

I like authors who don’t strive to please the spec­ta­tor with shal­low aes­thet­ics, but, instead of that, stim­u­late to think.

7.WHAT ARE THE BEST/WORST PARTS ABOUT MEETING ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER?

Pho­tog­ra­phy itself is always place of meet­ing between the author and the spec­ta­tor. The nicest meet­ings for me are those which change me, the worse are those which leave me empty.

8.COULD YOU DESCRIBE A GOOD LEARNING EXPERINECE?

Process of learn­ing and ques­tion­ing is end­less. The best way is to exper­i­ment and be open to con­struc­tive (self) criticism.

9.COULD YOU DESCRIBE A BAD LEARNING EXPERINECE?

A bad learn­ing expe­ri­ence for each pho­tog­ra­pher is to get blind of inter­net and other ovations.

10.WHAT HAS BEEN THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT AS A PHOTOGRAPHER?

There were more, but I would like to point out the friend­ship with Sloven­ian pho­tog­ra­phers Matej Peljhan and Alen Laci­jan. They’ve helped me end­lessly with my per­sonal and pho­to­graphic development

11.WHAT EQUIPMENT DO YOU USE?

I mostly use Canon 5DII and 24–105 lens. I also love to exper­i­ment with Nikon F75 and dif­fer­ent types of films. Of course lens­baby is always with me too.

12.IF THERE WERE FEW THINGS YOU COULD RECOMMENT TO ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPHER TO KEEP IN MIND DURING THEIR OWN DEVELOPMENT, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY?

I would not dare to say any­thing, because pho­tog­ra­phy in my opin­ion resists in the gap between sub­jec­tiv­ity and objec­tiv­ity. It is just a way of expres­sion which is always bounded with the lim­its of the motives of the self. Nev­er­the­less, my mes­sage is, to be a pho­tog­ra­pher one need to stop mak­ing pictures.

Questioned by Rick de Vreis