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    AAJ Interview: Žiga Koritnik and The Eye







    My interview with photographer Žiga Koritnik, Žiga Koritnik and The Eye, today at All About Jazz.

    In a time when cameras are more pervasive and invasive than they've ever been—with iPhones, iPads, Androids and low-price point-and-shoot devices lending the impression that everyone is a photographer—photo artists like Žiga Koritnik, paradoxically, stand out more than ever. Sure, anyone can take a picture, but to get to the heart of a subject and truly capture what it's all about requires much more than a camera and the opportunity to use it. It requires The Eye: one that sees things most don't, sometimes in the most seemingly mundane circumstances.

    Žiga Koritnik has The Eye. Capturing more than just the image in front of him, Koritnik's eye intuits those special moments in time to which we all aspire, but only rarely achieve. And it's more than mere documentation; anyone with the money and the desire can learn the mechanics of taking a technically proficient photo, just as anyone with the money and the desire can learn to play an instrument. Anyone can, in time, take a good photo; only a precious few can create great ones, and only an even more rarefied handful can fashion a consolidated work of art that tells a story, as Koritnik has done with Cloud Arrangers, a photo book for which Koritnik is currently seeking a publisher.

    Telling tales is nothing new for Koritnik. Un punto di luce (Edizione Archivi Delsud, 2009) told the story of the small town of Gavoi, the drum village in the heart of Sardinia. No words were necessary to articulate Koritnik's journey through farm country to Gavoi, or the sights and sounds of a festival all the more remarkable for his using exclusively black and white photography to capture the nuances often lost in color imagery. Still on the shy side of 50, Cloud Arrangers is Koritnik's first book of musical photo impressions, and even more than the singular experience of Gavoi, it's a book he's been working towards his entire life.

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    Last edited by jkelman; 04-03-2015 at 09:32 AM.

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