An award winning series (honorable mention on PICTURE OF THE YEAR LATIN AMERICA competition in 2013) was a side product of a reportage I was shooting about the street carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The carnival Tuesday is a national holiday in Brazil. No wonder every town in Brazil holds a carnival. In bigger cities,…

My first reportage for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC is a deep look at the process of breeding the Lipizzaner horses. These horses are not only a matter of unique cultural and historical heritage but also a living treasure of ancient genes and a result of meticulously planned evolution. Lipizzaner got the name after his mother stud farm,…

In this reportage for MAN Magazine I traveled to the most important coffee region in the world, the southern part of a Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. A history of coffee production in Brazil goes back nearly 300 years. Brazil has been the world’s largest coffee producer for over 150 years. It is responsible for…

A photographed this reportage for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELLER in Slovenian Alps, near the river Soča that makes a border with Italy, the locals keep traditional way of “highland farming”. Cows and men in this area follow special kind of calendar that defines their year. In early spring, when the snow melts and the grass starts…

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…