Kindly invited to the artist talk with Žiga Koritnik, Slovene renowened photographer mostly know for his excellent photography opus of jazz musicans from all over the world. He has been a regular guest on the music scene and documents the Ljubljana jazz festival, the Druga godba festival, concerts in Cankarjev dom and various other events across Europe, both large and small, including Saalfelden jazz festival, Konrontationen in Nickelsdorf, Vienna jazz festival in Austria, Musique Mettisses in Angouleme, France, Womad in Reading, England and the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, Ai Confini Tra Sardegna E Jazz and Musica Sulle Bocche, Sardegna-Italy, and the Vision festival in New York. Since 1996 he has been a resident photographer of the Skopje jazz festival in Macedonia, where each year a calendar with his photos is published. In 2001 he held a major exhibition at the Skopje City Museum to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival, which was accompanied by a book predominantly featuring Koritnik’s photographs. In 2019 he published his monography the Cloud Arrangers, hi first book dedicated just to his jazz photography. In 2024 he managed to published his new book, again with the help of crowdfounding at Kickstarter platform, about the legendary tenor saxafonist and visual artist Peter Brötzman.
From the press:
"Koritnik's tribute to him doesn't privilege Brötzmann in action on stage, but backstage and as a person; Brötzmann's charisma and human sensitivity emerge from the black and white - in reality he was shy and romantic behind the hard exterior of his music - and photo after photo, even his rather austere and masculine taste in clothes takes on meaning with his personal style, shown as a reflection of his rigorism".
Marcello Lorrai, Il Manifesto / Italy, 2024
"It would be hard to imagine a more endearing book, in pictures and text, dedicated to perhaps the most important figure in European free jazz since the 1960s, the saxophonist Peter Brötzmann (1941 - 2023), who died last summer".
"A must-have book for its documentary value, but also for the photographic art it represents!"
Roger Bergner, Orkester Journalen / Sweden, 2024
"...Beautiful black-and-white photographs, well-edited edition, love, skill, vision: you can almost hear the sound coming from the pages of this book dedicated to the author of "Machine Gun"...."
Nazim Comunale; Blow Out / Italija , Januar, 2025
To purchase his books, please click here and here.
