Woman with a Monkey – Afterimages of the History I Witnessed
(Afterimage definition: A visual or mental sensation that persists 
after the original stimulus has ended)

The selection of images presented is rooted in various projects I made over the year. They represent my approach to news photography, which I prefer to label as documentary. Document serves beyond current events and day-to-day information. It documents not just certain events but fixates on the mood of a historical moment; it is not literal and does not require logic or explanatory elements typical of straightforward reporting. My work reflects the prevailing mood of the time and place. Most often, it is located away from a central event or at the edges of the main focus, becoming afterimage of it. Mixing personal with impersonal, that work is about dreams—imagined, lost, or transformed after the handshakes of politicians are completed for 
the media. A photographer, when an artist, is a storyteller—rather than a mechanical recorder of events and life, sifting through an endless space full of information and extracting its own message out of it. The photographer’s eye is a curating one ; the photograph itself is not an explanation but a note, a color, or a shape reflecting the experience of the modern man.

This exhibition is made possible thanks to the Polish Institute in Belgrade.

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