Petar Sabol Sharpeye

Petar Sabol „Sharpeye“ was born in 1981 in town Čakovec, Republic of Croatia, Europe. He started his photography work in 2007. In the same year he joined the Photo Club Čakovec and became its active member. From the very beginning of his photographic work he was fascinated with nature and its beauty, especially in the area of macro photography. In addition he professionally photographed events (weddings, various celebrations and public events). His photographic images display and evoke moments in the life of nature that most people find difficult or almost impossible to see in reality because of constant and increasing human alienation from nature. Thanks to devoted and very systematic work, he captures incredible shots in which the main compositional ingredient is beautiful natural light. By idealizing beauty of nature, he stands on his solid positive attitude towards the beauty and wonders of nature. Since the beginning of 2012 to date, he has participated in many international exhibitions of artistic photography under high patronage of FIAP (Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographique) for 317 times. He has won 359 times (186 medals and 173 honorable mentions for 95 different art works) in more than 30 countries. He also participated in international exhibitions under the patronage of the PSA (Photographic Society of America) where he is also rewarded many times. He has been awarded in other specialized photographic competitions around the world. The total number of awards is almost 500. He won the 1st prize at 1x Photo Awards 2015. He holds honorary photographic titles EFIAP/gold and EPSA. His famous photo "Natural abstract" has been awarded with the FIAP gold medal in the macro category at the 7th Salon of photography in the United Arab Emirates 2012/116 and permanently stored at the National Library in Paris. This photo was among the top 10 on the Sony World Photography Awards. At that competition he was the winner in the category of National Award 2016 with photo 'Kingfisher in action', where he was also placed in the top 50 with another of his photo. He repeated same success second year in row where he won first place with his photo 'Swirl'. On www.fotowedstrijd.eu he won the first prize in the category of macro with photograph “Only love matters” in 2014. Five years in a row, he was awarded on the American National Insect Salon under the patronage of the PSA. He is a winner of the gold medal for the best PSA author of salon twice. He won the first and second prize in 2014 at the National Insect Week in England, which is held biennially. In less than four years, Petar Sabol became the most awarded Croatian photographer. His work has been published in many journals (Mirror, Telegraph, The Sun, The Dailymail, Meridians). So far he held four solo exhibitions. At the end of 2014 in Zagreb presented his first solo exhibition Butterflies. The second solo exhibition Kingfisher held in April 2016 in Negova in Slovenia under the high patronage of FIAP, in one of six world-renowned exhibition centers of FIAP. The third solo exhibition Kingfisher presented in Bor, Serbia, early October 2016. Fourth solo exhibition ‘Creative macrophotography’ was held in Karlovac city, in aquarium Institute Aquatika, September 2017. He is a member of the jury in international exhibitions and photographic competitions and Sony ambassador of Croatia. web: www.sharpeyephoto.com

Andreja Ravnak

Born on 155th day of the year, when Nasa published the mysterious photo of face on Mars, I was connected to creativity from early childhood. I spent my free time drawing, painting, designing, discovering nature and science. I could never satisfy enough all my curiosity and it was a rather difficult decision to choose one study, one proffession only. I turned up an architect, which is a fusion of creativity, technology and psychology. I have worked in several architectural bureaus, building schools, markets, blocks etc. Due to economic crisis I also started working in tourism and I never say no to design and photography. Photography has always been an important part of me, at first especially for one reason: those frozen moments make me remember the flow and details of my life. I always loved to explore nature and travel, so I gradually and spontaneously developped a feeling for photographic expression. A few years ago I got hit by the fact, that I actually see my inner and outer world as frames or pictures. That, somehow turned my photographic way in my present direction. I joined the photographic club »Društvo fotografov SVIT Celje« in december 2008 and my photographic path grew really rapidly since then. So far I had several solo exhibitions and joined some group exhibitions abroad and I also organised some local photographic projects. I earned photographic titles KMF FZS (master candidate in Slovenian photographic society) and EFIAP/p (excellence FIAP platinum). I won quite some international photographic awards and my favourite is 1st place individuals at FIAP world cup Paris in 2010. Recently I was invited to the jury in several national and international photographic exhibitions in Slovenia, Serbia, Norway and now also Croatia. I love to experiment and try new ways of expression, I have a lot of ideas on my mind, but the duties of life leave me not much time for photographic projects, which basically remain my love and my food for soul in my spare time. Need I say, that I would really like to contribute to a better world with my expressions once, so I think there is really a lot more to do in the future. I also love to work with young photographers and encourage their creativity and individual views. You can follow some of my work on my webpage http://mojevesolje.si/

Miljenko Marotti

Prof. dr sc.Miljenko Marotti, university professor, has been actively exibiting since 2002. He holds the rank EFIAP/PLATINUM and Master of Photography I class of Croatian Photographic Union. He was awarded The Tošo Dabac Award. He has held 30 exibitions and more than 50 joint exibitions. More than 700 of his photographs have been accepted 1750 times at FIAP, PSA and UPI salons where he has won 90 awards. His photo Fist was published in the book Die Besten Tierfotos der Welt. His photographs comprise abot 30 cycles. His interests in photography include life photography, architecture, nature, portraits and digitally modify photography.