I graduated as a Film Director, and have worked for more than 30 years in Cinema and TV as a Director, Director of Photography and Editor, as well as in Publicity and Promotion as a Photographer and Art Director. All these years I have been a free lancer.
Photography has been basically everything in my life: my preoccupation, my work and, it still continues to be, my only hobby.

Reflections on light

Light is the most variable element in our daily life, it changes minute by minute and through the seasons of the year. We move between lights and shadows, light focuses our attention and shadows stimulate our imagination.

One of the most important abilities of the photographer is being able to observe the light and to memorize it, in order to recreate it or “persecute” it later. Luminance memory is to a photographer as musical memory is to a musician.

Photos are made of memories of “that perfect light”, of “that glory of nature’s mood”, always trying to capture “the truth of what we see”. On the other hand is “the truth which the Photographic Medium is capable of seeing”, mainly very different and therefore questionable as true, but however a "truth" as a reality in itself.

After nearly two centuries of photography we've gotten used to accept the "photographic truth" as normal. So when we see a photo which is closer to the perception that we humans have of nature, it seems strange, unreal and even manipulated. A lie repeated over two hundred years has become, hopelessly, a truth.

Any filters, lab processing or computer software I use, are to avoid the deficiencies of film or to correct digital recording devices, not to amend or improve nature, which is indeed the source of my inspiration. It is Nature which pushes me to express my feelings; phototechnicque is, only, a way to record it.

Consequently, in my opinion, the other most important ability of the photographer is being able to overcome the inadequacies of phototechnique, in order to minimize the differences between both “truths”.

What makes a good photograph? Viewpoint? Composition? Timing? Light? Image processing? All these things, but most of all it is the quality of the light and the vision of the artist that can turn a good photograph into a great one.

Some work experiences before establishing my own company in 1991:

•1983-90. Taught seminars on Lighting and Light Control in Film and TV, at the most prominent Television Stations in Spain.
•1987 “Reflection, Diffusion and Light Control”, taught seminar at IV Congress of Professional Photography. (Bilbao, Spain).
•1972-82 Director, Cameraman and Editor of more than twenty documentary films, some about Roman Archaeological Digs in the Danube Area.
•1972-82 Photos for Posters, Books (Two about Belgrade’s Architecture), Monographs, Magazines and Advertising.
•1979 “Light on People”, taught six seminars at Belgrade’s Film Library for students of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
•1979 Director of Photography in the feature film “Radio Hurricane, Calling Angelica”.
•1978 Photo Exhibition of Belgrade’s Architecture: “Steps”.
•1977 Member of Yugoslavian Association of Graphic Artists and Designers.
•1976 Director of Photography in the TV film “All those Beautiful Things”
•1976 Photo Exhibition of Belgrade’s Architecture: “Facade”.
•1975 Director of Photography in the feature film “Naive”.
•1975 Editor of the feature film “Do you know Pavle Ples?”
•1973 Editor of the feature film “Irena, we are Damned!”
•1973 Member of the Yugoslavian Society on Cinematographers.
•1972 Director of Photography and Editor in the feature film “... And God Created the Café Singer”.

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