Klavdij Sluban, Other Shores, The Baltic Sea

Born March 3, 1963 in Paris, became interested in photography as a teenager. In 1986 he graduated from American studies and completed his practice in black-and-white photo lab at Georges Fèvre’s and then he sets off for many trips. He lives in Slovenia – his motherland  where he spent his childchood. In 1992 he returns to France and devotes himself to photography. He travels across Balcans, around the Black Sea, through the countries of the former Soviet Union, around the Baltic Sea, the Caribbeans. He visits Jerusalem, Latin America and Asia. Since 1995 he has been working in Youth Detention Centre in Fleury-Mérogis where he takes pictures and runs a workshop with young people.  In 1998 Sluban was recognized with an award of the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) for a set of photos about Black Sea. In 2000 he received Prix Niépce, in 2001 – a Fiacre scholarship from the French Ministry of Culture.