CV SASA PETEJAN
March 2004
Born in 1972 in Koper (Slovenia).
As long as I can remember I believe in the power of words and journalism is my main occupation.
Everything begun during my studies at the Faculty of Social Science in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where I took a degree in journalism in 1999. I was working mainly for printed media and I have experience as a national level journalist. I spent four years as correspondent for Slovene Press Agency (STA). I am member of IFJ (International Federation of Journalists).
After few years of experience I started to explore a combination of well-crafted words, meaningful images and so-called good news in prevailing bad news environment. At the end of year 2000 I began to collaborate with photographer Bojan Brecelj.
In last three years several features and interviews (complete research included) were published in Slovene magazines (Mladina, Glamur/Gloss, Nedelo, Adria Airways, Grif, Sobotna priloga ...) and abroad.
Assignments and photo journalistic projects (on agreement or independent) where published or bought by: Geo (F), Focus (UK), New Scientist (UK), Science&Vie(F), Specchio — La Stampa (I), Il Diario della Settimana (I).
Some of reportages/features/interviews are listed below:
tuna fish breading in Dalmatia (Croatia), Naples — the city of extremes, MuseumsQuartier Wien — one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world, Guy Pride in Wien, Spila cave — the only well-preserved and fully explored Illirian shrine known, protest at the G8 environment summit in Trieste, a trilogy about Zimbabwe (agriculture & land issue) and AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe, The Vlachs in Yugoslavia and their magic, Oil spill in Spain, Egyptians are Invading the Desert >building the New Nile valley, desert cities, farming in the desert, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- search for missing persons, exhumation and identification, DNA-led identification methods, ﾉSlavko Kulic
- Croatian sociologist and political scientist, Luigi Casati - Italian extreme cave diver Luigi Casati, Oliviero Toscani - Italian photographer and provoker, Antonio (Toni) Negri - Italian analyst, political scientist, sociologist, philosopher, terrorist and prisoner, Santino Spinelli - first Rom, becoming a senior university teacher in Europe, Agron Zajmi — a neuropsychiatrist in Kosovo, Esma Redzepova Teodosievska - Queen of Romany Songs and nominee for Nobel Peace Prize 2003, Svetlana Broz — cardiologist, grandchild of Josip Broz, better known as Marshal Tito, the leader of Yugoslavia until his death in 1980, she is developing an idea of civil courage, Eva Elvira Klonowski - forensic anthropologist, Polish-born Icelandic citizen who lives and works in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) on individual and mass graves since the beginning of war victims exhumation in BiH in 1996 run by Hague International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia …
The greater part of mentioned work is on the Internet:
www.ipak.orgThe exploring spirit was restless ant together with Bojan we realised an exhibition
M a y L a n d
(images & words project about Zimbabwe >>Belgrade : Kulturni Front Belgrade for Kulturni Centar Photo gallery - June 2002 Ljubljana: Equrna gallery - July , August 2002 Nottingham:1851 gallery - 28 Oct-11 Nov
That was the time when we began with a development of
concerned journalism idea.
P A L E S T I N A
(Photography & Visual address) is a working title of our second exhibition in remembrance of thousands of olive trees — life hood of Palestinian agriculture — destroyed by Israeli soldiers and settlers in the last two years to built a high wall and security zone. Olive tree is (WAS) almost the only crop which grows on the stony hillside of the West Bank without irrigation.You can contact me by e-mail at the address
sasa.petejan@siol.net
CV SASA PETEJAN - 5/02
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Since the beginning of the year 2001 Bojan Brecelj is cooperating with a journalist Sasa Petejan, born in Koper (Slovenia) in 1972. Sasa is working as a journalist since she was a student at the Faculty of Social Science in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she took a degree in journalism in 1999. As a journalist she was working for Slovene commercial TV station Kanal A, daily newspaper Dnevnik, regional paper Primorske novice and some Sa_a’s articles were published in a largest national daily newspaper Delo. Last three years she is working as journalist correspondent for Slovene Press Agency in the costal region and publishing in national and foreign magazines, periodically she is cooperating with an Italian weekly magazine Il Diario della Settimana.
Last year Sasa and Bojan published several reportages and interviews in national magazines (Mladina, Glamour, Nedelo, Adria Airways, Grif,..) and abroad. Some of reportages are listed below: tuna fish breading in Dalmatia (Croatia), Naples — the city of extremes, MuseumsQuartier Wien — one of the ten largest cultural complexes in the world, Guy Pride in Wien, Spila cave — the only well-preserved and fully explored Illirian shrine known, protest at the G8 environment summit in Trieste, a trilogy about Zimbabwe and AIDS pandemic in Zimbabwe. In last year and a half she interviewed a Croatian sociologist and political scientist Slavko Kuli_, an Italian extreme cave diver Luigi Casati, an Italian photographer and provoker Oliviero Toscani, an Italian analyst, political scientist, sociologist, philosopher, terrorist and prisoner Antonio (Toni) Negri, a first Rom, becoming a senior university teacher in Europe, Santino Spinelli.
The greater part of mentioned reportages and interviews are published on the Internet:
www.ipak.orgYou can contact Sasa by e-mail at the address
sasa.petejan@siol.net.