An interview with Bojan Nikolic AKA ChibsterrAn interview with Bojan Nikolic AKA Chibsterr
Planning
RH: What attracted and inspired you to your current documentary project?
BN: Most of the photos I take are in London. I moved here from Sarajevo when I was 8 years old and it felt natural to develop a long term project about the city and my relationship to it.
RH: Can you talk us through the planning stage for your project?
BN: I don’t plan a lot in regards to the specifics of what I’m shooting. I shoot what I feel generally and then I will gather the images together and certain connections or narratives will arise from that.
RH: Is there anything you wish you had done differently?
BN: Not really, just to shoot whenever and wherever possible.
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RH: How have you dealt with any challenges and difficulties within your project?
BN: Just to have my camera with me as much as possible. I think moments are happening everywhere and all the time, the street, the beach, at home, in the sea, the toilet, a blacked out room. I think its possible anywhere, for me the word “street” just means the reality or life around us. I just enjoy collaborating with it in real time.
RH: How long do your projects tend to take from start to finish?
BN: However long it takes.
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RH: Do have several images to edit of one fleeting moment or do you have one well-constructed precise image that you have captured?
BN: I try to take a stand alone single image first then connect it later. Or just something I find interesting and might work later when put with other images.
RH: Within the editing stages, have you felt the project has taken on a different narrative than first envisaged?
BN: I think it can change a lot and hopefully for the better.
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RH: What would you recommend for people starting their own photographic project?
BN: Shoot what you care about, whether it is specific or not.
RH: Does the camera really matter?
BN: Only in the sense that you’re comfortable in using it.
RH: Any books you would recommend reading to get the creativity started?
BN: There are lots, but here are some that come to mind:
The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott MCcloud Violence by James Gilligan In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Anything by:
Carl Sagan Bertrand Russell George Orwell Vladimir Nabokov Anthony Burges Aldous Huxley
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RH: Would you recommend attending photography workshops?
BN: I guess good ones can give you new ways of working and inspiration.
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