Knjižnica Ivana Potrča Ptuj / Ptuj Library, 6. JUL – 10. SEP 2023
Matjaž Krivic in Ciril Jazbec sta za svoje delo prejela prestižno nagrado World Press Photo – Krivic leta 2016 za serijo Kopanje prihodnosti, Jazbec pa leta 2021 za projekt One Way to Fight Climate Change: Make Your Own Glaciers.
Matjaž Krivic and Ciril Jazbec both received the prestigious World Press Photo award for their work – Krivic in 2016 for his series Digging the Future, Jazbec in 2021 for his project One Way to Fight Climate Change: Make Your Own Glaciers.
v sodelovanju z / In collaboration with: Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana
Ciril Jazbec (1987) je dokumentarni fotograf rojen v Sloveniji. Po končani ekonomski gimnaziji je svoj dodiplomski študij opravil na Ekonomski fakulteti na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Študij je nadaljeval v Londonu, kjer je zaključil magistrski študij fotoreporterstva in dokumentarne fotografije na London College of Communication. V samo nekaj letih mednarodnega delovanja je za svoje fotografije prejel nekaj prestižnih mednarodnih nagrad: nagrado Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award in Rencontres d’Arles leta 2013. Obe nagradi je prejel za svojo reportažo On Thin Ice, ki ga je leta 2015 uvrstila tudi na seznam Magnum 30 Under 30. Od leta 2014 kot fotograf dela za National Geographic.
Svoje zgodbe objavlja v najpomembnejših mednarodnih časopisih in revijah kot so The New York Times, GEO, Der Spiegel, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Marie Claire Italy, Leica Fotografie International, Wired UK. Osebni projekti so ga najprej peljali na otočje Kiribati in Aljasko, kasneje pa v Ugando in Grenlandijo.
Ciril Jazbec usmerja fokus svojega fotoaparata v trajnostni razvoj, v spremembe, ki jih v naravi povzroča človek s svojim pehanjem za nenehnim razvojem in dobičkom in ki usodno vplivajo na človeka in njegovo nadaljnje življenje na modrem planetu.
Na mednarodnem fotografskem natečaju World Press Photo 2021, je osvojil drugo nagrado v kategoriji Okolje. Nagrajen je bil za serijo fotografij (The Ice Stupas), ki jih je posnel v severni Indiji, objavljene pa so bile lani v reviji National Geographic.
Matjaž Krivic (1972) je dokumentarni fotograf, ki v svojih delih prikazuje tematiko revnih predelov sveta, bogatih s tradicijo in versko izpovednostjo. S kamero dokumentira pomembne družbene dogodke po celem svetu, ki se dotikajo tem okoljevarstva, globalizacije in družbenih neenakosti. Fotografira na intenziven, svojstven in estetsko presežen način, ki mu prinaša številne prestižne nagrade ((LOBA – nominacija za nagrado Leica Oscar Barnak Awards – 2020 Nemčija, MIPA: »Storytelling« 2020 Malta , Direct Look – FotoDoc: »Documentary Category – 1st place Winner« 2019 Rusija, MIFA: »Portfolio – 1st place Winner« 2018 Malta , ISTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS: »Environment series – 2nd place Winner« 2018 Turčija , PHILLIP JONES GRIFFITHS Awards: »Finalist« 2018 UK, SLOVENIA PRESS PHOTO: »Okolje – 1. nagrada« 2017 Slovenija, PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL: »Multimedia – 1st place Winner« 2016 ZDA, ELLIOT ERWITT PHOTO GRANT: »Finalist« 2016, ZDA, SLOVENIA PRESS PHOTO: »Ljudje – 1. nagrada« 2014 Slovenija, TPOTY »Amazing Places – 1st place Winner« 2010 VB, GEOGRAPHICAL Photographer of the year »Landscape Winner« 2003 VB , TPOTY »Judges Favourite Award« 2003 VB, GEOGRAPHICAL Photographer of the year »1st place Winner« 2002 VB), med drugim World Press Photo leta 2016 in Lensculture leta 2019. Več let zapored je osvojil naslov Travel Photographer of the Year. Svoje dokumentarne fotografije je razstavljal v Sloveniji (Cankarjev dom, Galerija Fotografija, Kibla Portal) in v tujini (Pariz, Sydney, Moskva, New York, Dunaj, Roterdam, Amsterdam, London, Tbilisi, Dortmund, La Gassily, Atene, Tunis, Le Mans…).
Ciril Jazbec (1987) is a documentary photographer born in Slovenia. He studied management at the Faculty of Economics before moving to London where he studied MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication, graduating in 2011. In just a few years of international work he received several awards – amongst them the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and an award at the Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2013, both for his photo story On Thin Ice, which also won MAGNUM 30 under 30 in 2015. He has been working as a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine since 2014.
His work has appeared in printed and online magazines – National Geographic, The New York Times, GEO Germany, GEO France, Der Spiegel, The Sunday Times, La Repubblica, WIRED UK, Bloomberg Businessweek, Neu Zürcher Zeitung, Leica Fotografie International, Leica M Magazine, Marie Claire Italy, National Geographic Traveler. His projects took him to Kiribati and Alaska, and later to Uganda and Greenland.
His lens is focussed on sustainability, on man-made changes in nature caused by our constant search for progress and development, which may have a fatal impact on man and his continued life on the blue planet.
For a series of photographs titled The Ice Stupas he took in northern India and were published last year in National Geographic magazine he received The World Press Photo 2021 (Environment category, Stories, 2nd Prize).
Matjaž Krivic (1972) is a documentary photographer who is capturing the stories of places in poverty, in actuality rich with tradition and religious heritage. He documents important social events all over the globe, mainly regarding topics of ecology, globalization and social inequality. He photographs in an intense, personal and aesthetically moving style that has won him several prestigious awards (LOBA – A 2020 Nominator for Leica Oscar Barnak Awards – 2020 Germany, MIPA: »Storytelling Category – 3rd place Winner« 2020 Malta , Direct Look – FotoDoc: »Documentary Category – 1st place Winner« 2019 Russia, MIFA: »Portfolio – 1st place Winner« 2018 Malta , ISTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS: »Environment series – 2nd place Winner« 2018 Turkey , PHILLIP JONES GRIFFITHS Awards: »Finalist« 2018 UK, SLOVENIA PRESS PHOTO: »Environment series – 1st place Winner« 2017 Slovenia , PALM SPRINGS PHOTO FESTIVAL: »Multimedia – 1st place Winner« 2016 USA , ELLIOT ERWITT PHOTO GRANT: »Finalist« 2016, USA, SLOVENIA PRESS PHOTO: »People series – 1st place Winner« 2014 Slovenia, TPOTY »Amazing Places – 1st place Winner« 2010 UK , GEOGRAPHICAL Photographer of the year »Landscape Winner« 2003 UK , TPOTY »Judges Favourite Award« 2003 UK , GEOGRAPHICAL Photographer of the year »1st place Winner« 2002 UK), including World Press Photo in 2016 and Lensculture award in 2019, as well as winning the title of Travel photographer of the year several years in a row. His documentary photographs were exhibited in Slovenia (Cankarjev dom, Galerija Fotografija, Kibla portal) as well as abroad (Paris, Sydney, Moscow, New York, Vienna, London, Rotherdam, Amsterdam, Tbilisy, Dortmund, La Gassily, Athenes, Tunis, Le Mans…).