Darker side of the Guangzhou

Villages in the city, Cheng Zhong Cun, are a special phenomenon of Chinese urban geography. Due to extremely fast urbanisation after 1970s there are about 139 villages caught between skyscrapers in Guangzhou. Many has already disappeared and more are torn down every year. Despite the bad living conditions in the Xiancun village many people remains since the government compensation for their property is not high enough. In the past there were several clashes between police and the villagers refusing to leave. Due to the dense constructions some streets in the village are as dark as night…

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Dark side of the Guangzhou I.

Well dont want to be overdramatic, but it was actually dark when I came to Xaiobei – Chocolate city in Guangzhou. Why Chocolate? Because there lives most of the estimated 50.000 -200.000 Africans. I have to say that night market in Xiaobei was quite a sight… It felt like I have stepped in a movie… 34C, humidity, smoke of the bbqs, colorful stalls full of various plastic toys, clothes, shoes, Noolywood movies… small dark streets, telephone shops, barbers, african music… lots of well Africans but also Middle easterns , Xinjiang Chinese (muslims) – finally some mustached brothers…

Only regret that I have was fact that I had only one hour and only my pocket camera… But will return for sure…

 

Istanbul – Ankara in search of Ata Turk

Not so long ago I was in Turkey. Destination that I always wanted to visit but  have never found time since is sort of to close for a long destination trip and to far for the weekend trip. Now I have finally made it… One week in Istanbul and Ankara shooting different places and objects closely related with the founder of the modern Turkey – Ata Turk.

Blue Mosque

Bospor

Small Van cat before one eye changes…

Typical Turkish Van cat…

Old shepherds tradition of biting goats ear for a good luck…

Ata Turk on a throne

Its cool to have a store downstairs…

After couple of rakis… Some drunk stories…

Fells like home

Ruuuun

Mausoleum in Ankara

Cay

They have an area where thousands of stray dogs live in forest! they have houses and they feed them..They are also marked and everything… But still a surreal sight…

Black sea, black as night.

Card house… They play exactly the same remy game as we do in Slovenia!

Liu Bolin – behind the scene

Not long ago I was invited to do a 3D photo test with one of the best known Chinese artists – photographers – Liu Bolin… I am sharing some behind the scene photos from the shoot…

Was a great experience to see the well organised team working together.

If you dont know Liu Bolin here you can see a nice video about his work…

Summer day in Summer palace (Beijing)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ai Wei Wei

Finally some new material on the blog after a long time…

2 weeks ago I had an opportunity to shoot couple of portraits of one of the most influential Chinese artists Ai Wei Wei for a Croatian magazine – Globus.

Interesting interview and a patient model… I have manage even to make couple of 3D photos  and a cinematograph…

 

 

 

Cinematograph was done with the help of Benjamin Rančić

Living Legends 4 – Partisan fighter, wine maker, blacksmith

Project shot for Maribor – European Capital od Culture 2012 consist of 15 short (cca 5 minutes long) multimedias about Living legends – Interesting, inspring, passionate, hardworking people mainly from North east of Slovenia. We meet and had a super interesting chat with a hunter, miner, beekeeper, partisan, photographer, vine maker, shoe maker, ironsmith, herbalist, firefighter, innovator….

In the first part you can check the video about the firefighter, hunter and about a man that drove a ferry all his life. 

Here is the fourth part – Partisan fighter- Franc Sever Franta, Wine maker – Stanko Čurin, Blacksmith -Anton Horvat

Living Legends 3 – Shoemaker, Beekeeper, Vulcanizer

Project shot for Maribor – European Capital od Culture 2012 consist of 15 short (cca 5 minutes long) multimedias about Living legends – Interesting, inspring, passionate, hardworking people mainly from North east of Slovenia. We meet and had a super interesting chatwith a hunter, miner, beekeeper, partisan, photographer, vine maker, shoe maker, ironsmith, herbalist, firefighter, innovator….

In the first part you can check the video about the firefighter, hunter and about a man that drove a ferry all his life. 

Here is the third part – Zora Grk – vulcanizer, Jožef Levovnik – shoemaker, Janko Pislak – beekeeper

Living Legends No2

I know I know.. This project is nor new nor from China, but… Is one of my favourite projects I have shot last summer with a great team – Marko Murč and Rebeka Žvagen – Living Legends.

Project shot for Maribor – European Capital od Culture 2012 consist of 15 short (cca 5 minutes long) multimedias about Living legends – Interesting, inspring, passionate, hardworking people mainly from North east of Slovenia. We meet and had a super interesting chatwith a hunter, miner, beekeeper, partisan, photographer, vine maker, shoe maker, ironsmith, herbalist, firefighter, innovator….

In the first part you can check the video about the firefighter, hunter and about a man that drove a ferry all his life. 

Here is the second part – Folk musician Hinko Sernc, a coal miner-poet Drago Seme and a Photographer Stojan Kerbler. Incredible people  – true living legends!!!

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