TITLE : ELSEWHERE
PHOTOBOOK
AUTHOR : OLGA KARLOVAC
Olga Karlovac’s career speaks for itself. “Elsewhere” is her fourth book.
She carries out a very coherent discourse from an artistic point of view, her work has a solidity and continuity from an aesthetic and content point of view.
I started following her when I started to get interested in street photography.
Nowadays, and seeing all her work and especially the latest one, I think that street photography has been a starting point for her, but she has been able to evolve and find her own dimension that accentuates her artistic capacity.
Yes, I think that Olga, even before being a photographer, is an artist.
The reasons are obvious.
With her work she starts with reality but is able to extract what interests her, shape it and in the end transmit very powerful sensations, even creating a personal world.
This world is the one she has inside.
I could go so far as to say that this world resembles a parallel reality where landscapes blur and people resemble liquid shadows that wander lost.
Or it could also be an abstraction of reality, a personal interpretation of life, where loneliness, cold and darkness are constitutive elements.
“Elsewhere” is composed of a prologue and four chapters in which the artist’s absolute, almost desperate need to communicate with the world is revealed, although it seems that this need is frustrated because she remains trapped in a different dimension of reality created by her own thoughts.
Those who open the book will be the ones who will pick up the message and break the barriers of communication between the artist’s world and the “real” one.
The first edition of “Elsewhere” is very elegant, the paper chosen is exactly what the photos called for and it is perfectly edited.
All the information also on how to acquire it HERE .
About Olga Karlovac
Olga Karlovac is a self-taught, abstract and street photographer, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She is best known for her unique and expressive style of photography and her trilogy of self-published photobooks.
Olga uses her camera to capture fleeting moments and emotions. Working exclusively in black and white, predominantly after dark and in rainy conditions, her abstracted images blur the lines between figuration and visual poetry. Her dreamlike scenes lead us down winding streets and invite us to linger and lose track of time, to recognise the familiar within the barely there.
in the blink of an eye
in the moment between day and night,
somewhere at the edge of darkness and light
walking down an empty road below the mountain of memories
while strong winds from the north carve your marks all over my skin
i feel your breath
and i imagine…
Olga originally wrote as the opening text for her “escape” photo book
Her photography has been featured in many photography magazines, such as black+white photography magazine, frankfurter allgemeine zeitung, der standard, inspired eye, etc..
Olga has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the world,
Following the success of her trilogy, she has published new photo book “elsewhere” in March 2024.
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