Shooterama Street photography in the Balkans

Is this what you wanted

A couple of more photos from the Hotel Zvezda, Vrnjačka Banja.

I haven’t really much to say about them, other than they feel a bit haunted, which was what I was after.

Will you miss me?

I’ve been editing again, and it’s always weird/annoying when I find an image that is better than I’d originally thought.
In this case, I’d missed the knife in the background, which says a lot for the hands-on killing of the pig. Had it not been for Aperture, I’d have missed it altogether.

Re-dial-a-cliche

Do verbal cliches translate into photographic ones? A pig’s ear, the cat’s whiskers… perhaps not.
A bit like the challenge of Roy Walker’s Catchphrase, it’s never so easy to convert the visual into the verbal.
Say what you see? A past philosophy tutor once told me that a picture can’t paint a thousand words - because different […]

Keep on the sunny side

It’s pretty hard to photograph poor people, especially when you don’t speak the language. And can’t make the kind of connection you want. To this end I’ve failed in the past - having started a project on Serbia’s Roma. I stopped fairly soon.
The above, however, are pretty close to what I’d want to do now. […]