Janez Bogataj / Pastorala

Janez Bogataj was born in 1961. He began creating his recently exhibited series Early Works between 1978 and 1979. In 1981, while he was working as a photographer for the Mladina magazine, he was awarded the Golden Bird award for photographic achievements. He spent 1989 in Paris, where 40 of his photographs were included in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale and one was published in the journal Revue de la Bibliothèque Nationale in 1992.

Throughout his photojournalistic career, he created more artistic, personal works as well, and published them in the photobook Pastorala (2004), together with quotes from classic literature. He further on published photobooks Sonata for Sun and Fog (2012), and Bagatelles, Early Works 1978–1979 and Impressions (2019).

Language: Slovenian
Size: 23,5 x 23,5 cm (62 black-white photographs)
Binding: hardcover with jacket
Publisher: Karantanija, 2004