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Transsibérien, Mongolie
2008
Klavdij Sluban
Photography
110 x 164 cm
Black-and-white photograph
Given the choice, Klavdij Sluban heads east: to the Balkans, Albania, Poland, Russia and Mongolia… For over 15 years he has explored these territories and brought back images of a world in motion, photographed while walking or through the window of a bus, train or the Trans-Siberian railway. His exclusive use of dense black and white has led the critics to nickname him “photography’s Soulages”.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Given the choice, Klavdij Sluban heads east: to the Balkans, Albania, Poland, Russia and Mongolia… For over 15 years he has explored these territories and brought back images of a world in motion, photographed while walking or through the window of a bus, train or the Trans-Siberian railway. His exclusive use of dense black and white has led the critics to nickname him “photography’s Soulages”.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Klavdij Sluban
France
Born in 1963
Born 1963 in Paris
Lives and works between France and Eastern European countries (Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldavia, Latvia, Russia).
Born in the French capital but entrusted to an uncle for a few years by his parents who worked in the Parisian area, Klavdij Sluban spent his childhood in Slovenia and grew up journeying back and forth between the two countries all the time. Himself the eternal exile, he turned this incurable yearning into the very source of his sombre, descriptive photographic style. Constantly in transit, this travelling photographer with a passion for literature enjoys nothing better than wandering the world with a book by Samuel Beckett or Fernando Pessoa stored away in his backpack.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works between France and Eastern European countries (Slovenia, Serbia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldavia, Latvia, Russia).
Born in the French capital but entrusted to an uncle for a few years by his parents who worked in the Parisian area, Klavdij Sluban spent his childhood in Slovenia and grew up journeying back and forth between the two countries all the time. Himself the eternal exile, he turned this incurable yearning into the very source of his sombre, descriptive photographic style. Constantly in transit, this travelling photographer with a passion for literature enjoys nothing better than wandering the world with a book by Samuel Beckett or Fernando Pessoa stored away in his backpack.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
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