I photographed carnival for UOL in 2017 and 2018, focusing on faces and colors between backstage and the Samba stadium alley. To understand the importance of this cultural event it is enough to know that Carnival is a national holiday in Brazil. A weeklong street parties are being held in the cities throughout Brazil, and…

This reportage for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC focuses on indigenous Slovenian bee, which is one of the most spread and valued around the World. Slovenia is a cradle of beekeeping. We have evidence of beekeeping in the country since the middle ages, and a first description of it in a 1689 book by historian Valvasor. Slovenia was developing…

In this reportage for SIOL, I documented a rare black Lippizaner horse through the daily routine of his keeper and trainer Urša Vadnjal. The origins of the breed date back to 1580, which makes mother stud Lipica (used to be part of Austro-Hungarian monarchy, nowadays it is part of Slovenia) one of the oldest studs in…

For this reportage for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC I travelled to the south of Brazil in search of a species of bees imported from my homeland Slovenia in the 19th century. I discovered, however, that there were the feared African bees that changed forever the production of honey in Brazil. The indigenous population, even before the arrival…