About Me
I am photographer / cinematographer working mostly stage and portrait photography - following jazz and world music musicians (what is actually my main obsession, working as theater photographer, commercial, portraiture, multi - practical... Being in the business for last 20 years - attended many different music festivals around the globe. Worked as film and video cameraman on Slovenian national television for 18 years, now free -lancing. Here is text that I am usually sending around to introduce myself:Ziga Koritnik has been capturing images of musicians since 1987. He lives and works in Ljubljana-Slovenia, where he is regular guest on the music scene and documents the Ljubljana jazz festival, the Druga godba festival, concerts in Cankarjev dom and various other events across Europe, both large and small, including Saalfelden jazz festival, Konrontationen in Nickelsdorf, Vienna jazz festival in Austria, Musique Mettisses in Angouleme, France, Womad in Reading, England and the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, Musica sulle bocche, Sardegna-Italy, Vision festival in New York. Since 1996 he has been the resident photographer of the Skopje jazz festival in Macedonia, where each year a calender with his photos is published. In 2001 he held a major exhibition at the Skopje City Museum to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival, which was accompanied by a book predominantly featuring Koritnik's photographs. In 2001 he spent seven weeks in New York, where he documented the Vision Festival and became acquainted with the musical and artistic events in the city. He was afforded the oppurtunity to exhibit in the Kavehaz Gallery in Soho.
In june 2006 he returned to New York to exhibit his work at Vision jazz festival. His photographs are regulary published in Slovene newspapers and magazines (including Delo, Mladina, Muska, and Fotografija) as well in international publications (Time out, Jazz times, Jazziz, Signal to noise, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Ballett Internationale, Village voice, All About jazz, Jazz Notes, DownBeat,...).
He is also involved in theater photography and has regulary collaborated with the Mladinsko gledalisce Ljubljana, Mestno Gledalisce Ljubljana,... He has worked with Iztok's Kovac's En-Knap dance company, for which he documented performances, and shot an accompanying film of their performance Dale.. od specih psov (A far from sleeping dogs), as well a film about composer Vinko Globokar, Krotilci casa (The Time Tamers) and also the last movie Beneath her window by Metod Pevec (got many awards at Slovenian film festival and Slovenian candidate for Academy Awards 2005). Since 1989 till august 2006 he has been employed by the Slovene national television station Televizija Slovenija as a TV and film cameraman, and has worked with the directors Maja Weiss, Peter Braatz, Amir Muratovic, Saso Podgorsek and Michael Benson,.... In 2001 he documented the making of Peter Greenawy's Map to Paradise exhibition in Ljubljana, which was followed same year by the publication of a book with extracts from his documentation of Greenaway's film, the creation of which is still underway. In 1996 he self-published a book of photographs entitled Jazzy-ga! (Jazz-it!). To mark the occasion, he held an exhibiton at one of the major European jazz festivals in Saalfelden, Austria. He was invited there in 2003 , too. His photos have appeared in many books by other authors, including a book on the sculptor Jakov Brdar, whose sculpting of general Rudolf Meister he documented, and Colors of Music, published for the 20th anniversary of the Saalfelden jazz festival. Ziga Koritnik also created cover of the Slovene translation of the autobiography of Miles Davis. He invited the photographers Mauro D'Agati, Raffaella Cavalieri, Matthiass Creutziger, Manfred Rinderspacher, Jak Kilby, Luca D'Agostino and Enid Farber to exhibit at the Ljubljana jazz Festival in Slovenia. In 2004 he made group photo exhibition of Slovenian music photographers. He has collaborated with the publishers of Mladinska knjiga magazines, and the company Hit Nova Gorica. He is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association. His photographs have illustrated the CDs releases by labels such as Tzadik, Intuition Music, Nika Records, Enja and Leo Records. In 1997 the Italian photo magazine Zoom featured presentation articcle on Ziga Koritnik, in 2005 Japanese magazine Jazznin presented his work on 16 pages. He heldover more than 20 solo and 10 group exhibitions at home and abroad. He has received the Special recognition award at the Olympus photo competition in Japan, and the Zlata diploma (Golden diploma) award for the annual report by HIT Nova Gorica. He is working regulary with Adria Airways, their latest collaboration was shooting for Annual Report 2006. The internet edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica has an entry for Koritnik's web site (www.ljudmila.org/scca/koritnik/) under The Web's Best Sites.
