CV BOJAN BRECELJ   - 3/04

Born 1953, living in Ljubljana, Slovenia

Working in different fields of visual communication - graphic design, stage design, multivision projects, video production,

but mainly  p h o t o g r a p h y.

From 1988 full time free lance photojournalist for different magazines worldwide and from 1990 member of IFJ/International Federation of Journalists/

           

since 2002 represented by Focus (Hamburg)          

since 2002 represented by Editing pictures (Paris)

since 2002 represented by Panos pictures (London)

since 2002 represented by Franca Esperanza (Milan)

since 97 represented by CORBIS UK photo stock agency

97-2001 co-production/diffusion with Grazia Neri (Milan)

since 96 diffusion  with VISUM (Germany)

95- 2001 co-production/ diffusion with Sygma press images   (Paris)

95/96 diffusion/co-production with Saola press (Paris)

94 founder of independent press agency in Ljubljana i/p/a PRESS-now IPAK

94 -96 photo editor of monthly magazine Viva (Slovenia)

since 92 associate member of Still Pictures - environmentallyoriented photo agency (London )

91-92 working on contract for Gamma press images (Paris)

 

 P H O T O G R A P H Y

 

Exhibitions:  Solo or group work exhibitions:

>>Belgrade : Kulturni Front Belgrade for Kulturni Centar Photo gallery - June 2002 Ljubljana : Equrna gallery - July , August 2002 Nottingham :1851 gallery - 28 Oct-11 Nov 

M   a   y   L   a   n   d

IMAGES AND WORDS BB&Sasa Petejan

>At the Mix café gallery PARIS - Bastille

Waves -Photographs - "interchanging prints"

>gallery Egoist Ljubljana 2000  "GO OUT" - projection show  ( MANIFESTA 2000 accompanying event )

gallery Plocnik Ljubljana - "Surrender" : 98

>>DA ZED&Confused London : "Strange Friends" 98

 KUD France Preseren gallery Ljubljana: "Venice Restart" 97 

>>Ljubljana CD Photo gallery: "Raio Azul" 96,

>KUD France Preseren gallery Ljubljana installation: "Winter Table" (Bosnian refugees)" 95

>Miramar castle Trieste: "Architecture of Fabiani" 88

>Belgrade: "Spaces II" 84

>CD gallery Ljubljana: "Spaces"84

>Belgrade: "Mental & Spiritual Spaces/Works" 83

>Galery KC Ljubljana: "Brick" 81

>SKC gallery Belgrade: "Healing of the Earth " 80

>Trigon Graz: ("Yugoslave Selection")1978 and 79

>>>Biennial Venice: (1978 presenting Yugoslavia in Yugoslav pavilion)

>jubljana Tivoli Park: "In-Light" 78

 

Group Exhebitions :

>> Moderna galerija Ljubljana 12/03- 3/04

U3 - 4th Triennale of Contemporary Slovene Art: HERE AND THERE

Guest Curator: Christine Van Assche, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

>Galerija Fotografija Ljubljana -opening exhibition 1/04

Saloon of Contemporary Slovene photography GR Ljubljana 2003

>CD-Ljubljana, Maribor, Celje, Nova Gorica "Tendecies in Slovenian photography 1990 — 1999"

exhibited on IRWIN injternational show

 >>"Name Pickers" - Marina Abramovic & IRWIN- group  project 1999

Jakopic gallery : "Cities" 1998,

KUD France Preseren gallery Ljubljana: "Prints" 1997,

Nikon Live gallery Zurich: "Animan Collection" 1989

"Arteder 84": Bilbao 1984

City galery Ljubljana: "Equrna Associates" 1983 

"Arteder 82": Bilbao 1982

Equrna gallery Ljubljana: "Equrna associates" 1982

Books, CD rom :

 K a l a c h a k r a The Tantric Buddhist Ritual Given by His Holiness Dalai Lama MAC&PC interactive CD-rom:

published by ipa Press 2002

-Go out of thy Head - imagetrack (MAC&PC interactive CD rom / imagemovie&sound ) published by ipa Press 2000

-Strange Friends - /Stemmle edition (Zurich-New York) monography 1998

-Mangrove Forests /Tropical Press /.(major part of photographs) 1997

-Geheimnis Venedig /Diederich Verlag/ 1997

-A Hidden Pathway Through Venice /Carucci Editore/ 1986

-Art in Novi Pazar / Ministry of Culture/ 1985

Multivision Presentations:

 

CD Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Mayday" 1988

Nova Gorica, Slovenia: "Secret Path Through Venice" 1987

Palazzo Grassi Venice, Italy: "Secret Path Through Venice" 1985

Volterra "Multi vision", Italy: "Four Elements of Novi Pazar", "Sound Line" 1984

Findhorn, Scotland: "Spring Festival" 1983

CD Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Harmony & Space" 1983

SKC gallery Belgrade, Serbia: "Healing of the Earth " 1981

 

Multivision Presentations / Music Performance :

 Planetarium of Arts Venice, Italy: "Art of Man & Art of Nature" 1985

SKUC gallery Ljubljana, Slovenia: "Art of Man & Art of Nature" 1984

 

Adverts:

Telekom, HT mobile, Human Rights Ombudsman, Elan nautical program, Diffur boats, Mobitel (mobile company), Krka and Lek (pharmaceutical companies)....

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Awards:

Photographer of the Year 1996 - Slovene Photography of the Year 1996

Best reportage - Slovene Photography of the Year 1996

1st prize in the category "People" - Slovene Photography of the Year 1996

Photo on the best CD cover - Zlati Petelin, Slovenia

Award for multivision Volterra, Italy

 

 

Assignments and  photo journalistic projects( in agreement with magazines, agencies or independently):

Published (or bought) in magazines: Geo (F) Marie Claire (F, I, E, P, NL, GR), Newsweek, Max (I), Focus UK, New Scientist (UK), Dazed&Confused(UK), Science&Vie(F), Animan (CH,F,D), Airone (I), Grands Reportages (F), Newlook (F), VSD (F), Aqua (I), Geodes (I), UWF (D), Natur (D), World (UK), Altair (E), Mundo (E), Sette (I), Atlante (I), Merian (D), Physis (D), Terre Sauvage (F), Earth (Taiwan), Grand Air (CH), Geo (J), Geo (Korea), Gloss (SLO,CRO),Spechio (I), Diari(I) …..  

 

Portrait of Slovenian Family &SLO entering EU…

Esma Redzepova Teodosievska -Queen of Romany Songs and nominee for Nobel Peace Prize 2003Las Abejas "New Maya Indians tribes  in Mexico — Chiapas > struggle for independence …  "A agriculture & land issue in  Zimbabwe >Battle for the land , Save the Seed & Plant the Water, Africa won’t be hungry… being (AIDS) positive in Zimbabwe  >To witness the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe is like watching a war film with the sound switched off..…  Animal rights" living and daying in animal farms >  pigs, chickens turkeys, cows … "Mind Your Step" >Deminig projects in Bosnia… Berlin > "ten jears after the wall " 1999 …Roma&Vatican  >In anticipation of the end of millennium the two begun to work closely together to profit most out of the event….Montenegro  >     industry,  religion, politics, artists, media,  life stile,  gypsies - refugees  from Kosovo, …Father Jovan > a story of an  orthodox  monk- ex Yugoslav  well known  avant-garde   artist and philosopher…Austria  - in the times of black&blue coalition …Kalachakra  initiation > Buddhist highest tantric ritual happened, performed and guided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself…..Toscani’s FABRICA" > On The Day of the Divorce…. The  smell of Tuna fish > Croatian postwar phenomenon, loaded onto a Japanese vessel 340 tons of bred tuna fish that will sell like hot cakes on the Tokyo fish market….   Harlem  -Renaissance > "the place to live, the place to go…"Spila cave > the only well-preserved and fully explored Illiryan shrine known….About Naples > the city of extremes MQ Musem Quartier - Vienna >One of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world…Lugi Cassati >extreme cave diving…  "Srbia till Tokio" >Kosovo 98 …Cefalu > Sicilian town governed by women … Egyptians are Invading the Desert >building the New Nile valley, desert cities, farming in the desert…..Economic Crises in Russia 97

industry, agriculture, media ...Paris Au File De L’Eau >all and about river Seine: 

Hype London  > music, clubs, shops, SoHo , fashion, art, D.J…….Slovenia - personalities  >five years after independence/, politicians, scientists, artists, sports, people -the protagonists of modern Slovenia...Taiwan >

same people - different paths - What brought Taiwan to the first democratic

elections in the 5000 years of Chinese history?……Oxford >The City of Trees ….  Jamaica’s "Seven Days "  Maroons, Revival Churches, Ras Tafarai, music scene, Nine Nights ritual, Country Houses, Coffee, Fishing, Lifestyle, History, Landscape &vegetation…..Families of New York >personal stories of

individuals from different ethnic groups (Chinese, Jewish, Afro American,

Russian, Jewish, Irish, Arab…. Oman > general geographical story on modern, wealthy and fast developing (oil) country …. Behind the wall of Jerusalem in prayer and peace  ….Circus Around the World > Following the spirit of world greatest circuses- Russia, the USA, Europe, the famous Moscow circus school,

 Tchaikovsky > The pathetic life of Piotr Illich.Tchaikovsky …..Serbia> Living in the shadow of war ….topics: Media / Extremists / Opposition / Culture ….Bosnian Muslims in Refugee Camps /. refugees, women and children, the survivors of a natural catastrophe….Venetian Authentic Art >the Murano glass……Shanghai City > the past and present navel where changes in China start  …..Sea Farming >the cultivation of seaweed in East Africa…..Zanzibar > The Land of the Blacks …Mennonite >( Amish) colonies in Bolivia ….Jesuit Missions in South America ….Mangroves >Forgotten Forests Between Land and Sea Melanesia, Philippines, Thailand, India, Tanzania - tropical zone/

ecosystem, its habitat and use , art of the mangrove dwellers , underwater life of Mangrove forests uAsmat People > The Mysterious Artists in a Forgotten  Land  /Irian Jaya …. GoldRush Story > The poor millionaires > /Highland tribes in  Papua New Guinea/ From the times of the "first contact with a white man" and the meeting of the two histories...Sepic > The River of Spirits  /New Guinea island….Copts of Egypt >.Christians among Muslims…  Nile - The Source of Culture / Sudan and Egypt … Old Mother Ganga  > from mythology to nowadays ….Adriatic Islands -  Island Susak -  Isolated island of sand with unique culture different from any other in the…..The National Park of Kornati islands > Rainbow desert in the midst of a deep blue sea   unique nature,…. .