12:44
Today I went to take a few shots of the protest against Kosovo independence. The protests took place in front of Serbian orthodox church in Ljubljana. It started at 12:44, like anywhere across the world where people are protesting against Kosovo independence, to symbolise the UN resolution 1244. The resolution states that Kosovo is a part of Serbia.
What I wanted to capture at the protests were some interesting portraits and emotions. Not to make a coverage. After all, I’m not a PJ, so I can shoot the way I want. I was a bit disappointed, since there were only around 1000 people present, instead of anticipated 3000. So it was even harder to find the kind of people I wanted to shoot. Old men with their distinguishable caps (šajkače) and the protest itself was pretty peaceful and people didn’t get as emotional as I expected them to be. I mean, there of course was some chanting like: “kdor ne skače ta je šiptar, hej hej hej” and “ubi, zakolji, da šiptar ne postoji”. But there was no true anger or hatred, no tears, no violence. Ok, there were some threats to the PJs, that came to close. That was also the reason they kept to themselves, away from the “raging” crowd, while I was the only one that was in the middle of the chanting, jumping etc.
Here are some shots, comments are appreciated, since I rarely do documentary photography.
One can rarely see so many police officers at such small scale protests. The shot was taken 3 blocks away from the protest. American embassy was totally blocked with fences and police cordons.
Old and tired
Young and eager
One could see many interesting banners, as well as some more or less standard
When things got a bit crazier. Football match? Looks similar…
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MXAudio said
am March 2 2008 @ 8:11 pm
Super slike ni kej.
Matjaž Merčnik said
am March 2 2008 @ 8:13 pm
Fotke so super. Se vidi, da si se precej bolj potrudil od ostalih reporterjev, ki bolj malo dajo na kvaliteto fotografije. O samem dogodku pa ne bom razglabljal. Naj povem le toliko, da teh protestov (v sloveniji) nikakor ne odobravam.
Grega said
am March 2 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Ujel si zanimive trenutke
Peter said
am March 2 2008 @ 11:16 pm
Dobro si tole naredil, izgleda kot da si bil v zanimivi druzbi
ZiZa said
am March 2 2008 @ 11:18 pm
fotke so super ni kaj… tole glede protesta pa škoda besed.
Peter Bernik said
am March 2 2008 @ 11:36 pm
Tnx boysi. Ja glede družbe je pa tako; treba se je ufurat in imeti jajca. Ne pa kot naši reporterčki, ki se po izrečenem, citiram:”Beži bre pička ti materina, razbiču ti kameru” userjejo do konca dneva in le še nekaj iz daljave fotkajo, namesto da bi šli med folk, v dogajanje.
Matjaž Očko said
am March 3 2008 @ 12:10 am
dobre fotke! hehe sem te vidu po tv
Sveti Sava said
am March 3 2008 @ 3:52 pm
Fenomenalne fotke! Še kak filmček bi moral posneti pa bi bilo doživetje popolno.
Srbija Do Tokija
Peter Bernik said
am March 3 2008 @ 7:43 pm
Matjaž: U fak, potem pa ne smem it na burek al pa kebab še vsaj kakšen mesec (če se ni videl fotoaparat):D .
Sveti Sava: tnx. Filmčkov je pa nedvomno kar nekaj na youtubeu, ker je kar dosti ljudi snemalo z mobitelom. IN jasno na vseh dnevno informativnih straneh…
Gregor said
am March 7 2008 @ 2:29 pm
Jap, odlična reportaža. Fajn si tole zrihtal.
Elvis said
am March 7 2008 @ 6:56 pm
Zelo zanimivi kadri. Vsekakor veliko bolje prikazano kakor standardne reporterske hiše.
ciril Jazbec said
am March 9 2008 @ 6:14 pm
par detajlov mi je prav všeč. npr tista tretja fotka.
DICKY HARDY said
am March 10 2008 @ 3:55 pm
Slovenski Srbi so vendar kultiviran narod, kakšne emocije si pa pričakoval…streljanje s kalašnikovim u luft…bi mogel it za take fotke pa 600 km južnije…ampak je za zapečkom lažje, a ne?
Peter Bernik said
am March 10 2008 @ 6:26 pm
Hehe, a zdaj si užaljen ker ti nisem odgovoril na to če so slovenski modni fotografi gayi (pri prejšnjem postu)?
Nihče ne dvomi o kultiviranosti, se pa pričakuje vseeno več emocij (se ve da so bolj temperamentni, čustveni in direktni kot recimo Slovenci), ko gre za tako stvar. Jasno nisem pričakoval odzivov kot v BG, bi pa z veseljem šel tudi tja, če bi dobil naročilo
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Samo said
am March 14 2008 @ 7:21 pm
A se da kje videt fotke ostalih fotoreporterjev, ki jih vsi v nič dajete? Tko za primerjavo, da vidim.
Peter Bernik said
am March 14 2008 @ 7:33 pm
Samo: 24ur.com, delo.si itd. Nisem nikoli rekel da so zanič ali da so moje boljše (sam se itak sploh se ne ukvarjam z reportažno fotografijo). Napisal sem le da so pezdetje.
Samo said
am March 22 2008 @ 9:53 pm
No ravno ta zadnja izjava bo glede na to da nisi fotoreporter malo premočna, ali pa si pač le na tem dogodku dobil tak vtis. Niso vsi za v isti koš metat.
Peter Bernik said
am March 23 2008 @ 2:56 am
Ja saj, napisal sem za prisotne reporterje, ki jih pa vsekakor ni bilo malo. Jasno je da niso vsi enaki. Jure Eržen ima iz Srbije kar nekaj fotk iz dogajanja, da ne omenim da so vrhunske. Samo zdaj se že meša jabolka in hruške. Govorilo se je pač o dotičnem dogodku in pokrivanju le-tega.
Ni potrebno biti po mojem reporter, da bi lahko opazil da določena skupina ljudi nima jajc. In zame ni reportaža da nekaj strahopetno fotkaš iz varne razdalje. Pa saj sam dobro veš, ko si z 10 mm vedno v centru dogajanja. To je zame reportaža, da si vmes, v vrtincu, da se povežeš z ljudmi, da si v bistvu eno z njimi. Da se ljudje skoraj počutijo kot da so bili tam, ko gledajo fotke - ok pretiravam, a določenim mojstrom je tudi to že uspelo.