This is how it all started!
July 10, 2010
Violeta Bulc contacted me one day with the wish to get family photos of Pina Maja, Žiga and herself. I thought: Oh my god, how can I do portraits that are truly honest and relaxed? Then an idea popped up that I first had twenty years ago: ‘do it yourself, do it in front of a mirror!’. A few days later, my first prototype with studio flashes and camera on the other side of a big mirror was operational and yielded surprisingly open-hearted photos. ‘Self-fish Studio’ started officially in January 2010 with a project & exhibition …
… at the Town Hall gallery in Ljubljana. Selffishstudios website was operating, and the work-in-progress exhibition was growing each day … In just 8 days, 100+ people came to experience it! Every day a number of new images were being developed and at the end, there was a COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION of 65 authors, a spontaneous collective presentation of the people who did their own portraits!
Authors: Iztok Osojnik, Roman Uranjek, Inti Šraj, Marko Pogačnik, Andrej Detela, Violeta Bulc, Arne Hodalič/Domenique Landini, Maja Rijavec/Urška Štrukelj, Bostjan Pucelj, Gašper Puntar, Maja-Katja Derganc, Maja Megla, Ivana Petan, Nastja/Carmen/Timon Mulej, Jana Koistri/Murray Bales, Tisa Krivec, Val Burgar Koželićki, Katja, Polona Baloh Brown, Angus Brown, Keka/Gavrilo Starič, Danaja, Dušan Mandič, Maxime Landini, Tomaž Smrdu/Kamai Hauser, Kristal Šraj, Zoran Jankovič …
Bojan Brecelj, author of the project
June 16, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Bojan…fantastic…. you did it again. Super page, like your project itself…what a way to reach people in their deepest corners… and allow us to see ourselves on the most honest way ….