Matjaz Krivic is a documentary photographer specialising in capturing the personality and grandeur of indigenous people and places. For 18 years he has covered the face of the earth in his intense, personal and aesthetically moving style that has won him several prestigious awards. He has made the road his home and most of the time you can find him traveling with his camera somewhere between Sahara and Himalaya. His stories of planet Earth, its temples, illusions, our efforts, needs and afflictions, which he recorded at different parts of the world, establish links with the subtlety of our parallel archetype worlds and expanding the space of inspiration, as well as our empathy and tolerance towards the known and unknown cultural space.
In his recent project “Digging the Future” he speaks about the dangerous lives of mostly underage gold miners in Sahel region of the North-Eastern Burkina Faso. Through his photographs he investigates a hazardous story of modern slavery and child labor which is mostly a consequence of our constant high demand for gold.
The urban environment of the developing world is focus of his long-term project “Urbanistan” , where he searches and explores the points where people and communities develop and intwine in the urbanity of humanity. He draws attention to the slowly declining social values that are sinking under increasing pressures of modernisation, by showing today's frenetic, urbanised world of consumption and speed but still manages to find and create spaces of contemplation and peace - moments that allow you to take a breather from the city - any city.
In his another long term project “Earth Temples” he presents us with his quest to find the world’s silent spaces, where he was drawn to the places of worship and to the vast natural spaces—where people seek inward instead of outward, reconnecting with themselves and with greater forces—showing us the ambiance radiating from these places and what has been lost on the way to modernity.
Matjaz’s photographs, multi-media projects and public installations have been exhibited internationally since 1999 with solo exhibitions in Russia, China, Tibet, Croatia and Slovenia, and group exhibitions in UK, Australia, Russia, USA, France, England, Ireland, Israel, Finland, Italy, Hungary, Croatia and Serbia.
He had won several photographic awards:
"World Press Photo" - Portrait singles, Second Prize 2016
“Travel photographer of the year” - Amazing Places Winner 2010
"Slovenia Press Photo" - Culture &; Entertainment Winner 2010
“Geographical Photographer of the year” - Landscape Winner 2003
“Geographical Photographer of the year” – Overall Winner 2002
Caught up in the rush and crush of modern progress, have we lost touch with the value of silence? A meditation on the disservices of technology when immersed in the world’s sacred spaces.
In Burkina Faso, men, women, and children scrape at the earth looking for gold, in the hopes of striking it rich. In reality, the workdays are grueling and it can take up to two weeks just to find the amount of gold used in one smartphone.
In today’s frenetic, urbanized world of consumption and speed, these photographs find and create spaces of contemplation and peace—moments that allow you to take a breather from the city—any city.
