Galerija Fotografija gallery founded in 2003 with a lot of enthusiasm and a wish to make fine art photography better known to the Slovenian public at large and to act as something of a forum for those active in the photographic circles. In addition, we have sought to create a market for fine art photography which until recently, has been largely non-existent. After these first steps done we are still dedicated exclusively to fine art photography, representing photographers from both Slovenia and around the globe. Gallery organizes exhibitions and workshops, sells fine art photography and also runs specialized bookshop.
ABOUT Euro Rotelli’s work
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[…] Rotelli’s photographs are of a very specific type and format; Polaroid snapshot . This tiny portion of film is, however, not content with the initial appearance with which it comes to life. Rotelli subsequently uses the negative component of the Polaroid precisely as if it was the negative of the film, he scans it to make a photographic print on cotton paper. But it is the pre-development phase, in which the photographer acts upon the positive part of the film that reveals what is to happen.
The artist does not seek clarity, he seeks poetry[…]
Marta Casati
ABOUT Diana Lui’s work
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[…]”Before they become a work of art, Diana Lui’s nudes are images of a body, but they are also the reflection of the social environment the model belongs to as well as of the history that has formed its identity to the point that the mere image of the nude is so strong,to name it becomes unnecessary. We are not faced with the concept of identity in the way a government office would define it: passport size photograph, name, age, citizenship. The nude body that is revealed here, often has a complex history that cannot be reduced to mere informational data, rather by a few “biographical themes” or “biographèmes”– a term used by Roland Barthes – . We understand quickly that Diana Lui has selected people floating in a certain transit, in travels, in encounters,the type of people who live a roving life and only land momentarily at the end of long and curious journeys. . The gaze can be tense like a dart ready to strike, but also be a shield to protect the thoughts and sensibility of a defenseless model left there in a delicate yet sensual state of abandonment. Nature’s diversity in body shapes and forms are clearly visible. . The eyes however all speak to us, they look at us to reveal a thought or an emotion. But those darts and shields are in fact a decoy; they’re not there to frighten us away but on the contrary to pull us into an interior world” […]
Anne Biroleau – Lemagny. Curator, 21stCentury Photography Department, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Galerija Fotografija
Mestni trg 11/I
Ljubljana, Slovenia
00386 41 664 357
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