Festival Lent 2014, part 1

Festival Lent - group photo exhibition, opening next Thursday in Maribor

Thursday, 28/05/2015

Photography exhibition opens on 4 June 2015 in Fotografski muzej Maribor, Slovenia

I am very happy to announce that few of my photographs will be exhibited in the upcoming group photography exhibition that will feature photographs of Festival Lent, from four of its, current and past, official photographers: Boštjan Lah, Dejan Bulut, Nebojša Tejić and yours truly.

Continuing our fruitful collaboration, I was very happy and honoured to be invited from the band to shoot probably their biggest live show in their career (so far, that is!) in a sold out Small hall of Dom sportova in Zagreb last weekend. And amazing concert it was!

Great concert of Slovenian singer songwriter Tadej Vesenjak promoting his new album that I did photography for, and a very special gig for many different reasons (read on!).

The final gallery from this years Festival Lent contains some moments captured offstage, on stage (but not as performance), behind stage and on the streets of Maribor, during the festival.

Festival Lent 2014 - 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story is coming to the end. In this gallery, among others: Inner Circle, Jinx, John Lee Sanders & Rad Gumbo and ZircuS!

During this 16 days of Festival Lent, I also shoot some (contemporary) dance performances and theatre for children - find some of those images in this gallery :)

Street theatre at it's best!

Festival Lent 2014: 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story continues, this time including regional and one & only Rade Šerbedžija, ZMELKlasikOOW aka Zmelkoow, Bad Copy, John Lee Sanders, Vlado in Milan Kreslin and many, many more!

Festival Lent also included some great stand-up comedy and few Slovenian comedy theatre plays...

16 days of Festival Lent in Maribor also included many sporting events - as one of the official festival photographers, I covered some of them, including Jet ski Alpe Adria Tour 2014 and Slovenia Slack line Open 2014 competitions, and here are few chosen photographs from them.

Jazzlent & other jazz concerts

Jazzlent (jazz colored sub-festival of Festival Lent) & other jazz gigs :)

Salon glasbenih umetnikov - Music Artist Salon 2014

16 days of Festival Lent also included classical concerts in the Dvorana Union (Union Hall) in Maribor.

26th Folkart & 50 years of KUD Študent ceremonial Academy

This years 26th Folkart International CIOFF® Folklore Festival, which is a sub-festival of Festival Lent, included seven folklore dance companies from whole world, plus, Maribor's own KUD Študent (The Cultural Art Association Študent) celebrated 50 years of continuous operation with a ceremonial Academy.

Festival Lent 2014: 16 days of hard work and so much fun - the photo story continues, this time including regional and local stars Elemental, Goblini, Đorđe Balašević, Los Hermanos muy simpaticos (muy simpaticos!) and many, many more!

Happy to continue my work collaboration with Pips, Chips & Videoclips, one of my dearest bands from this region!

Tadej Vesenjak, legendary young generation singer songwriter, with a bunch of great musicians (including my wife Špela on violin!) and a handful of great songs! Great concert, as I can remember, as his gigs usually are!

Happy to continue my collaboration with one of my dearest Croatian bands Pips, Chips & Videoclips, promoting their new (and a great one!) album called "Walt". The concert, which was official promotion of the aforementioned CD, was held in the packed Tvornica kulture club in Croatia's capital Zagreb, and it was a brilliant one!

Festival Lent in July issue of Sinfo

Wednesday, 21/08/2013

July issue of Sinfo features an article about Maribor's Festival Lent - the festival I have been photographing this year as one of the official photographers.

Underground culture means usually little money for organising the regular program and paying the monthly bills. Winter months are especially problematic, since the heating bills can get pretty big and that's where this benefit concert for helping the Gustaf club comes to play!

Isabelle Geffroy, young French singer better know as Zaz, is a musical and sociological phenomenon of our times, that's for sure. This 32 years old French singer with a specific, rough voice, released only one album ("Zaz", 2010) but made quite a career for herself already. Sold out gig in a big sports hall in Zagreb just proves that.