Žiga Koritnik
Photographer
Žiga Koritnik has been capturing images of musicians since 1987. He lives and works in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where he is a regular guest on the music scene. He documented and photographed the Ljubljana jazz festival, the Druga Godba festival, concerts in Cankarjev dom, Slovenia’s Congress and cultural centre, and various other events across Europe and other parts of the world (China, Malaysia, USA). These include the Saalfelden jazz festival, the Konfrontationen in Nickelsdorf,the Vienna jazz festival in Austria, and Music Unlimited in Austrian Wels, Musique Métisses in Angouleme (France), Womad in Reading (England), the Talos Festival in Ruvo di Puglia, Musica Sulle Bocche (Sardinia / Italy), Ai Confini Tra Sardegna E Jazz ( Sardinia / Italy), the Vision festival in New York (USA), the Montreal jazz festival (Canada), and the Jazz Meeting in Stavanger and Bergen (Norway).
He worked for many festivals as an official photographer, but the longest collaboration is with the Skopje Jazz Festival in Northern Macedonia (1996 to present). Each year, a calendar with his photos is published. He is regularly exhibiting and he has had more than 66 solo exhibitions and 40 group exhibitions at home and abroad (Slovenia, Italy, USA, Austria, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Germany, France, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Monte Negro, Ireland, and Japan). He is curating jazz photography exhibitions mainly at Jazz Festival Ljubljana (Mauro D’Agati, Raffaella Cavalieri, Matthiass Creutziger, Manfred Rinderspacher, Jak Kilby, Luca D’Agostino, Enid Farber, Luciano Rossetti, Caroline Forbes, Peter Gannushkin, Petra Cvelbar, a group exhibition of Slovenian photographers). He was employed as a TV and film cameraman at Slovenian national television for 18 years. Now, he is free-lancing.
His photographs are featured in magazines, newspapers (Time Out, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Signal to Noise, Village Voice, All About Jazz, Downbeat, Jazznyt, Jazzthetik, Jazz Podium, New York City Jazz Records, Wire, Musica Jazz, JazzIt, Jazzninn, Zoom, Fotografija, Muska, etc.), books, posters, web pages, promotional materials of musicians, festival booklets and recording labels (Tzadik, Intuition music, Leo Records, Clean Feed, Not Two, Enja, Trost Records, Dellmark, Smalltown Superjazz/Carrot Top, Laurence Family Records, Not Two Records, Fundacja Słuchaj, AUT Records, Discus Music, Audio Graphic Records, Stone Tapes, Session Work Records, Caligola records, Dodicilune Dischi, Rogue art, Driff Records, Goga Musica, Tiger Style Records, Impetus, Resurgance, SJF Records, Schplasch, etc.). He has collaborated with many Slovenian theatres.
He has a few personal books: his first publication presenting his music photographs was “Jazzy-ga!“ (1996), then Jezero / The Llake, photographs of the Slovenian lake Bohinj (2009), Un Punto Di Luce, photographs of the Sardinian Carnival (2009), and his last personal book, Cloud Arrangers, with his music photographs (2019). He writes about jazz photography for the oldest German jazz magazine, Jazz Podium, where he has his own column, “Foto spricht”. He has received a few awards.
14th of March 2024
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