Maybe that’s why the roads of our city are seen as a
common theme on your photographs and sometimes
they are substitute for the photo studio. Why do you
like Belgrade and what there is in it that moves and
inspire you?
I couldn’t choose now what I love the most, whether
studio or street. But the big problem of the fashion studio is that, for me personally, I have not had
the experience of working in enough large studios
that gives you a variety of possibilities. On the other
hand, the clients often do not have the budget for
the scenery that in the studio could be made, and
then we use existing ones. Belgrade is visually very
interesting because it is so different, because it was
rebuilt, reformed, old and new, because it shines
and decays and gives a lot of opportunities for work.
We know that today everyone is the photographer
and artist, with its modern gadgets and fancy expensive cameras. What is that one piece of advice
for the truly talented young people, future big
photographers?
As one musician said to me, whom I chasing to teach me to play the trumpet, “We will settle that you
come over, to look, to talk and for the beginning to
convince you not to do that.” All joking aside, the
photography is very nice but expensive “sport” in
addition to the money that can be put aside requires great dedication, time and work. The basis is to
love, and not just love, but also to live accordingly
to your work. You have to know what you’re doing
and to feel it. You can not be a fashion photogra-
pher if you are not interested in fashion, as I could
never be a good sports photographer because I can
not tell the difference between a football and polo.
When I was investigating a bit our interlocutor, thereby knowing from previously for his work but not
for his musical past, I was pretty surprised with that
fact in his biography. Amazed, my first question was:
How come you came to fashion photography after
rhymes, man? Briefly thinking he replied, “Because
in the fashion photography you have the most
artistic freedom, and thereby it soothes and feeds my demons.”
And that is what makes one passion, if you are lucky
enough, into a business. Passion that can calm down
your demons and throw you right into their arms, of
course, all depending on how you manage it. However, if you stand firmly onto the ground, and you
have the right sword, fairy protector and qualities
like dedication, commitment and courage (which in
addition to the talent have to decorate one successful artist, scientist, writer, man) and then you can
turn from the ordinary mortal into whatever you
want or imagine.
Written by: Maja Gvozden
Design: Ivana Zotović
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