Tag: Jost Franko

  • Jost Franko – Farming on the Frontline « burn magazine

    Jost Franko – Farming on the Frontline Jost Franko Farming on the Frontline [ EPF 2017 – SHORT LIST ] In the land from where the eyes can see the Israeli border, Palestinian farmers try to make their living producing agricultural … via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/09/jost-franko-farming-on-the-frontline/ In the land from where the eyes can see…

  • A Glimpse of the Workers Who Make Your Clothes – The New York Times

    A Glimpse of the Workers Who Make Your Clothes After photographing social inequality in his native Slovenia and internationally, Jost Franko has concluded that “profit over people” is the ideology that propels some of the world’s most profitable businesses. With his latest project, “Cotton Black, Cotton Blue,” he examined a global industry that from plantation…

  • Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko

    Link: Conversation: Christopher Morris and Jošt Franko | PROOF As a part of the VII Mentor Program, emerging photographer Jošt Franko has been mentored by VII member Christopher Morris for the past two years. In this edition of Conversations, Morris talks about what sets Franko’s work apart, Franko shares his future goals, and together they…

  • Jost Franko’s Disappearing Slovenia

    Jost Franko’s Disappearing Slovenia

    Jost Franko’s Disappearing Slovenia via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/jost-franko-disappearing-slovenia.html#slide_ss_0=1 In 2010, Jost Franko began photographing herders in Slovenia’s Velika Planina, a traditional community in the foothills of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps

  • VII Photo adds four photographers to Mentor programme

    Link: VII Photo adds four photographers to Mentor programme – British Journal of Photography Photographers Laura El-Tantawy, Nafis Ahmed, Jošt Franko and Amanda Rivkin have been selected to join VII Photo’s Mentor Program

  • The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

    The Young Slovenian, Jošt Franko

    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2011/07/20/the-young-slovenian-jost-franko/ Franko started taking pictures when he was 14 and won his first award when he was 16 with a moving series of photographs of his newly widowed grandmother. The series was awarded “Best Reportage” by the jury of the Slovenian Press…