OSEBNE KRAJINE (PERSONAL LANDSCAPES)

I see this book as a framing of personal landscapes, seen through my eyes, from my perspective, which has been professionally shaped through almost forty years of dealing with architecture and is therefore perhaps oriented primarily towards the built environment. However, these personal landscapes are not only built urban landscapes, but are also natural, unspoiled, preserved landscapes or seascapes. On the other hand, they can also be a road-infrastructure landscape, a landscape of façades or various details, and last but not least, a landscape of experiences that have been imprinted in my memory. It is the personal landscape that I actually understand and see in my intimate view of the spaces in which we live and use together with family, close friends and colleagues.

Most of the photographs are dominated by contrasts – between light and dark, or between something happening in front and something happening behind. A shadow that falls in front on a horizontal or vertical plane, or the shadow of a tree that covers an orderly façade or a geometrized floor with its irregular grid. Or a person in the foreground, even if they only appear in rare photographs, which determines the spatial depth and sequence of individual plans, where in the distance a third or fourth plan can be glimpsed after the second.

This book is thus a kind of personal diary, a real-time photographic record in which the partial story of my life in the last few years can be seen. A record that’s not only digital, but now also printed, offering a version that – in the event of a possible digital apocalypse, when all data is lost – will continue to live on.

Robert Potokar

IDEA AND CONCEPT
Robert Potokar

The photos were taken in the period from 2016 to September 2022 in various locations.

EDITORS
Robert Potokar in Mina Gutović

ACCOMPANYING TEXT
Blaž Budja

INTRODUCTORY TEXT
Robert Potokar

TEXT REVIEW
Špela Kuhar

SLOVENIAN PROOFREADING
Manica Baša

ENGLISH PROOFREADING
Paul Steed

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Ivan Ilić

PUBLISHER
Robert Potokar s. p.
Ravnikar - Potokar arhitekturni biro d.o.o.
Ustanova Fundacija Piranesi

PRINT ORGANISED BY
Božnar in Partner d.o.o.

COPYRIGHT
Robert Potokar

FORMAT
240 x 240 mm

PAGES
432

COVER
hard

Printed in Slovenia, November 2022