Showcasing street and alternative photography of Belgrade.
Busy weekend behind us, we were preparing submissions for Press Photo Serbia and it’s a mighty tedious process. Andrej is in London now, and is going to go to Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff some time soon, where he’ll meet the legendary photographer Joni Karanka. Expect seeing new Belgrade Raw stickers around town soon and some new features on the website, too!
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
Photo: Milovan Milenkovic
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
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Winter’s coming to an end, it seems. It was both fun and terrible, but we keep on rolling. Which reminds me – take a look at this strange concrete object. (located next to a Roma settlement) Just had an idea of turning it into a rolling panoramic camera obscura!
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Milovan Milenković
Photo: Andrej Filev
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
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First of all, congratulations to our Andrej on becoming the admin over at HCSP. Belgrade is a snowy place these days, but we don’t give up on getting out; actually, we are trying to find a sleigh. If anyone has one, don’t hesitate to offer.
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Andrej Filev
Photo: Milovan Milenković
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Supporting each other is the key principle of Belgrade Raw cooperative. Here you can see how Milovan helps Nemanja make photos look more spontaneous.
Today we were scouting locations for our project, (more info in March!) but since it also happens to be the Valentine’s Day (ser. Dan Zaljubljenih) we decided to share a few words and pictures.
Although traffic collapsed in Belgrade yesterday (and entire Serbia) due to a high amount of snow which fell Friday night, this Valentine’s Day was definitely a hit. Especially at Kalemegdan fortress. Lighting was just perfect – soft and diffuse, and there was a plenty of snow. Just look at those cute snowmen!
Too bad the snow will probably melt in a day or two, I’d love to contribute with my own snowman! Or snowmonster. Until then, here’s your Valentine’s Day greeting from Belgrade! I just couldn’t resist taking this picture. It was such an easy take, almost a cliche minimalist snap. But I like it’s lonely lovers lost somewhere atmosphere. Well, Happy Valentine’s!
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Alongside photos for this week, there’s also a redesigned frontpage of our website. Much simpler than previous versions, most important change is that the photos will be significantly bigger now. Any feedback on new layout would be greatly appreciated. Enjoy.
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
Photo: Andrej Filev
Photo: Milovan Milenković
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Another issue of our weekly photo blog. Lately we were very busy, but there’s a lot of things coming up. Don’t go too far, we’ll be back.
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Here it is, our third weekly photo blog. Andrej is in Vienna right now, doing what he is best in – enjoying nightlife and walking out with camera. Luka has a print sale going on, and new BelgradeRaw stickers are on their way.
Photo: Milovan Milenković
Photo: Andrej Filev
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
Photo: Željko Naić
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
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Photo: Željko Naić
Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Andrej Filev
Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
Photo: Milovan Milenkovic
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From now on, we’ll be publishing a weekly photo-blog, with each of us showing a single recent photograph. There won’t be a common theme, so you’ll probably get a strange (and hopefully exciting) mix of photographs from Belgrade. Comments are encouraged.
Zemun. Photo: Nemanja Knežević
Photo: Željko Naić
Photo: Andrej Filev
Kinky/sm party. Photo: Darko Stanimirović
Photo: Luka Knežević-Strika
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Browsing through Willy Ronis’ (the recently passed Mr Ronis was my favourite French photographer, I really enjoy the pitch of his photos if there is such a thing; you could say I just fell for his voice) monograph (Taschen 2009) I noticed a nude of his wife that reminded me of a girl I know. It is a very intimate photo and besides the resemblance of the girls, it somehow felt close to me. I felt the urge to try and recreate that photo, similar maybe to the way that smaller bands make covers of famous songs. I was thinking of a location that would be suitable and once I ended up at the one that I expected to be great and once I started setting up the scene, I found how little things about the original photo started to overwhelm me - the quality and nuances of light, the model position, the angle of shooting; it all started to jump at me more vividly than during any inside-the-mind-only analysis of a photo I’ve ever done. It inspired me to give interpretations and provide visual codes that would replace any of the missing pieces of the original photo that I could spot and after the whole shooting, I somehow really felt exhausted in the best way possible. I don’t know if the result is interesting, any comments are most appreciated, but I’ll be happy to make more of these covers/tributes/photocopies whenever something involves me in such a way.
Ronis:
(Deena Reading)
Luka:
(Jelena reading)
PS Willy Ronis passed away days after I made this photocopy. I hope he would have seen it as a tribute;
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