KREŠIMIR ZADRAVEC
KREŠIMIR ZADRAVEC web: http://kresimirzadravec.daportfolio.com Until recently we thought Krešimir was a professional who would not hesitate to visit the World’s conflict zones just to take that one perfect shot. Unfortunately, photographing editorial where JAM personnel was having intercourse with goats on the mountain slopes was evidently too much even for him. Excuses like “my lomo camera is sacred” and “Marina P. (information available to JAM’s editorial staff) won’t allow me” did not diminish our disappointment in the attempt to enrich the first magazine centerfold. Goats were also sharing our disappointment, but we were not disappointed with the barbecue that followed. Krešimir was not invited, with the excuse “Well, we thought you were a vegan.” Despite the professional lapse, Krešimir bravely picked up his digital camera and headed for the new photographic campaigns: this time he found inspiration in everyday situations and passersby, which resulted in an excellent series of photographs called “The Locals”.
Dorothea Lange once said: “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it.” SEPTEMBER 2011
JAM #18
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