Voranc Vogel: Od tebe dalje štejem svoje dni

𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐥: 𝐎𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐥𝐣𝐞 𝐬̌𝐭𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐦 𝐬𝐯𝐨𝐣𝐞 𝐝𝐧𝐢
17. 6.–23. 7. 2026
Galerija Kresija

📌𝐎𝐝𝐩𝐫𝐭𝐣𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐯𝐞: 𝐬𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐚, 𝟏𝟕. 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐣 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝐨𝐛 𝟏𝟗. 𝐮𝐫𝐢.
Na odprtju bo knjigo mogoče tudi kupiti.📚 (V sodelovanju z Mladinsko knjigo)

📷Vodstvo in fotografska delavnica: četrtek, 2. 7., ob 17. uri
👉Skupaj z avtorjem boste raziskovali, kako s pomočjo sence, perspektive in kadra v fotografijo ujeti sporočila vaših najljubših verzov ali pesmi. Prinesite rime in fotoaparate, lahko tudi telefone.

Od tebe dalje štejem svoje dni je transdisciplinarni projekt, ki prepleta fotografije Voranca Vogla s poezijo njegovega deda Lojzeta Krakarja – v obliki razstave in posebne knjižne izdaje, ki je letos izšla ob 30-letnici fotografovega ustvarjanja in 100. obletnici pesnikovega rojstva.
Sopostavitev verzov in podob se zavestno odmika od praks, v katerih fotografija deluje zgolj kot vizualna interpretacija ali ilustracija besedila. Fotografije ne upodabljajo motivov iz Krakarjevih pesmi neposredno, temveč se odzivajo tako na vsebinske iztočnice kot na različne elemente poezije, od ritma do rime. Posamezne besede in podobe se povezujejo kot koščki mozaika, ki se šele v medsebojnem razmerju sestavijo v novo celoto.
Za Vogla je prav čas osrednja vez med fotografijo in poezijo, projekt pa opomin, da čas v prvi vrsti ni ekonomska enota, pač pa sosledje trenutkov in občutij, ki nas izoblikujejo. Kot je odnos med podobo in pesnitvijo opisal v uvodu v knjigo: »Kot pesnik išče pravo rimo, posrečeno besedo ali notranji ritem pesmi, tako fotograf na terenu išče vizualne elemente in jih poskuša sestaviti v celoto; išče stik med svetlobo in senco, obliko in prostorom, gibom in trenutkom. Kadar se besede srečajo v pravi napetosti, nastane verz. Kadar to stori svetloba, nastane kader.«

𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐥 že tri desetletja lovi svetlobo, kader in trenutek vsaj tako potrpežljivo, kot potniki čakajo javni prevoz v jutranji konici. Odkar se je kot golobrad najstnik leta 1996 pridružil ekipi fotoreporterjev Dela, je v arhiv omenjenega časnika prispeval skoraj pol milijona posnetkov. S fotoaparatom, včasih pa tudi s peresom, še vedno poroča iz prvih vrst politike, športa, prireditev in protestov. V zadrego je ob portretiranju skozi leta spravil večino znanih in manj znanih osebnost iz sveta kulture, znanosti in gospodarstva, osebno pa ga – kot diplomiranega antropologa – privlačijo teme, ki se senčijo na obrobju žarometov javnosti. Najširši nasmeh se na sicer podolgovatem Vorančevem obrazu pojavi, ko onkraj službenih obveznosti tava po ulicah in planjavah sveta ter čaka, da se bo kateri od nič hudega slutečih naključnih sprehajalcev primerno vkomponiral v fotografijo, ki si jo je bil zamislil.
Za svoje fotoreportersko delo je prejel dve nagradi Slovenia Press Photo (2011, 2012) in štiri nagrade Watchdog (2014, 2018, 2020, 2023) Društva novinarjev Slovenije. Leta 2021 je prejel zlato medaljo FIAP za najboljšo fotografijo na temo »svet leta 2020«. Je avtor več kot desetih samostojnih razstav in soavtor številnih skupinskih razstav doma in v tujini.

Obrazstavno besedilo: Julija Hoda
Oblikovanje tiskovin in razstave: Ajda Schmidt
Foto: Voranc Vogel
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𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐥: 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐎𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐈 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬
17. 6.–23. 7. 2026
Kresija Gallery

📌𝐄𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟕 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔, 𝟕 𝐩𝐦
The book will also be available for purchase at the opening.📚

📷Guided tour and photography workshop: Thursday, 2 July 2026, 5 pm. 👉Together with the author, you’ll explore how to use shadows, perspective, and framing to capture the messages of your favorite verses or songs in a photograph. Bring your rhymes and cameras—or even your phones.

From You Onwards I Count My Days is a transdisciplinary project that combined the photographs of Voranc Vogel with the poetry of his grandfather, Lojze Krakar, to produce an exhibition and a special book published earlier this year, marking 30 years of the photographer’s career and the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth.
The juxtaposition of verses and images deliberately departs from practices in which photography serves merely as a visual interpretation or illustration of the text. Rather than depicting motifs from Krakar’s poems directly, the photographs respond to both thematic cues and various poetic devices, from rhythm to rhyme. Individual words and images come together like pieces of a puzzle, interplaying to form a new whole.
For Vogel, time is the central link between photography and poetry, and the project serves as a reminder that time is not primarily an economic unit, but rather a sequence of moments and sensations that shape us. This is how he described the relationship between image and poetry in the book’s introduction: “Just as a poet seeks the right rhyme, a fitting word, or the inner rhythm of a poem, a photographer out in the field seeks visual elements and attempts to assemble them into a whole, searching for the connection between light and shadow, form and space, movement and the moment. When words meet in the right tension, a verse is born. When light does so, a frame is born.”

For thirty years now, 𝐕𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜 𝐕𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐥 has been chasing light, frames, and moments with the patience of commuters waiting for public transportation during the morning rush hour. Since joining the Delo daily photojournalism team as a beardless teenager in 1996, he has contributed nearly half a million photographs to the newspaper’s archives. With a camera, and sometimes a pen, he continues to report from the front lines of politics, sports, events, and protests. Over the years, as a portrait photographer, he has put most of the well-known and lesser-known figures from the worlds of culture, science, and business on the spot. Personally, as an anthropology graduate, he is drawn to subjects that lie on the fringes, out of the public spotlight. The widest smile on his otherwise elongated face appears when, beyond his professional duties, he roams the streets and plains of the world, waiting for an unsuspecting, random passerby to fit perfectly into the frame he has envisioned.
For his photojournalism work, Vogel has received two Slovenia Press Photo awards (2011, 2012) and four Watchdog awards (2014, 2018, 2020, 2023) from the Slovenian Association of Journalists. In 2021, he received the FIAP Gold Medal for the best photograph in “The World in 2020” competition. He has shown his work in more than ten solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions, both locally and internationally.

Exhibition text: Julija Hoda
Graphic design and exhibition design: Ajda Schmidt
Photo: Voranc Vogel