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# matjaztancic.com

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## Pages

- [Home](https://matjaztancic.com/) - Matjaz is a Slovenian freelance documentary and commercial photographer based in Shanghai, China. Published and exhibited worldwide. info@matjaztancic.com
- [Books](https://matjaztancic.com/books/) - Books and publications
- [Commissions](https://matjaztancic.com/series/)
- [Commercial](https://matjaztancic.com/commercial/) - Hire a professional photographer for corporate, industrial, lifestyle, events, advertising & celebrity portraits. Book our commercial photographer services Now!
- [Tear Sheets](https://matjaztancic.com/portraits/)
- [Long Term Projects](https://matjaztancic.com/stories/)
- [Video](https://matjaztancic.com/video/)
- [O avtorju](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/oavtorju/) - Matjaž Tančič (1982) je umetnik, ki svet opazuje skozi foto ali video objektiv. Diplomiral je s področja fotografije na londonski University of the Arts, največkrat pa sodeluje pri dokumentarnih in neodvisnih fotografskih projektih v Sloveniji in na Kitajskem. Raziskuje socialno in kulturno problematiko različnih družb po svetu, s svojimi fotografijami pa briše meje med dokumentarno,
- [Portreti](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/portreti/)
- [Serije](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/serije/)
- [Zgodbe](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/zgodbe/)
- [Video](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/videosk/)
- [Text](https://matjaztancic.com/text/)
- [Monografije](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/monografije/)
- [Contact](https://matjaztancic.com/contact/) - Matjaž is currently in Shanghai, China. Whether you're in search of a photographer in China or just need help to be pointed in the right direction while working in or visiting China drop me an email. Info@matjaztancic.com Mob CN: +8618521595652 Mob SI: +38631347066 Instagram: @matjaztancic Wechat: matjazz Twitter: MatjazT Matjaž is part of the Inland
- [doma](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/doma/)
- [Komerciale](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/komerciale/)
- [Kontakt](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/kontakt/) - Matjaž se trenutno nahaja v Šanghaju na Kitajskem. Osebni kontakt: Info@matjaztancic.com Mob CN: +8618521595652 Mob SI: +38631347066 Instagram:WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/MATJAZTANCIC Twitter: MatjazT Wechat: matjazz
- [About](https://matjaztancic.com/about/) - Matjaž Tančič (1982) is lens-based artist working mainly on documentary and independent projects between China and Slovenia. His work explores the lines between documentary, portrait and art photography to engage with social and cultural issues. He likes to experiment within the photographic medium and is well known for his 3D stereography projects. Tančič holds a

## Swiper portfolio

- [Anatomy of the stream](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/anatomy-of-the-stream/) - The Danube, the backbone of Europe, is drying up under the weight of overexploitation, pollution, and industrial development. Every drop that vanishes impacts trade, food production, and drives up the cost of essential goods across the continent. To counter this crisis, a 700 km green belt around the Mura, Drava, and Danube rivers, stretching from
- [The Earth Keepers in Mongolia](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/the-earth-keepers-in-mongolia/) - Amidst the sweeping plains of Mongolia, a crisis looms large. The time-honored nomadic way of life, forged over generations, now teeters on the brink of extinction. Climate change advances relentlessly, while the Gobi desert expands unchecked. As temperatures soar and once-vast grazing lands wither away, the very essence of nomadic country is under threat. With
- [Tear Sheets](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/1200/) - Media Publications
- [First bodyguard school in China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/first-bodyguard-school-in-china/) - Surprisingly, until Chen Yongqing, a former soldier, decided to open his Genghis Security Academy, nobody in China had tried to professionalize bodyguard training business. But, in a country that every year adds new names to its list of millionaires, the idea was bound to be a success. We get behind the gates of the school
- [The Skateboarding village in rural India](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/the-skateboarding-village-in-rural-india/) - Bringing skateboards to children in Madhya Pradesh gives them enthusiasm to go to school and gives girls a confidence in themselves. The children skid into the dusty courtyard at breakfast time, grabbing skateboards from a stack near a tethered brown cow. Boards jammed under arms, they sprint barefoot past a large well pump, the main
- [King Bull](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/king-bull/) - The bull is a sacred animal to the Dong ethnic group in Guizhou, southwest China. “He has no owner; he is ours and we are his.” Liu Wang told me, as we sat outside the makeshift stables in the Wang Dong bull fighting arena. In just two days’ time Liu’s bull, Da Tou Wang would
- [Events](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/events/) - We offer the best luxury fashion events photography in Shanghai & throughout China. Hire the best event photographer for professional event photography Now!
- [Corporate - Industrial](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/corporate-industrial/) - Looking for corporate, industrial and professional photographer for corporate portraits? Contact us for the best factory photography in Shanghai & across China.
- [Health and Lifestyle](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/new-age-lifestyle-editorial/) - Ensure enduring moments with our commercial lifestyle photography in Shanghai & China. Hire lifestyle photographer for new age lifestyle editorial photography.
- [Portrait](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/portrait/) - Enhance your executive image with our professional portrait photography in Shanghai & across China. Visit matjaztancic.com to explore gallery & book your slot.
- [Fashion](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/fashion/)
- [Architecture](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/architecture/)
- [Timekeepers - China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/timekeepers/) - What really keeps time – clocks or memories? »Timekeeper« is a series of 3D photographs by Matjaž Tančič, inspired by the set up of Hui-style living rooms in the old village houses of Yixian. As one enters these dwellings, the eye is again and again greeted by the same sight: a small altar comprised of
- [Surfing China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/surfing-china/) - Most visitors to Riyue Bay, on the east coast of China’s southern subtropical island province Hainan, simply head there for a lovely day out – ideally documented with a million new photos. Large rocks near the beach’s southern edge provide perfect platforms for young monks, their wine-red robes flapping in the breeze as they pose
- [Fading Neon - Hong Kong](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/fading-neon-hong-kong/) - Neon lights have been a staple of Hong Kong’s nightscape for decades, each and every corner of the city basking in their gentle light. The use of neon lights became wildly popular as a new advertisement method during the 1950s, when the economy of the city started growing and a consumerist society quickly developed. Vying
- [Last train home](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/last-train-home/) - China’s high-speed rail network is the world’s biggest, but in rural Sichuan province, steam trains – which come with a historyof darkness and beauty – offer portals to a slower-paced yesteryear. Last December, China’s state-owned train system operator China Railway Corporation proudly announced that the country was home to the world’s biggest high-speed train network.
- [Tattooed Shanghai](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/tattooed-shanghai/) - Tattoos carry a lot of stigma in Chinese culture. For centuries, they were the markings of exiled criminals and sex workers. Over the past decade, however, younger generations, some influenced by death metal and punk culture, are increasingly getting inked. Nowhere in China is tattoo culture stronger than in Shanghai. Several tattoo parlors have cropped
- [Under water fashion editorial](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/under-water-fashion-editorial/)
- [Chic china - Fashion in China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/fashion-in-china/)
- [Mila Krasna Swimwear editorial](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/mila-krasna-swimwear-editorial/)
- [Revolution In The Opera](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/revolution-in-the-opera/) - Photographing a Revolution in Opera It is hyperbole to say North Korea is the least photographed country in the world, but access to capture anything off the tourist route is rare. Matjaž Tančič’s latest project, photographing the North Korean Revolutionary Opera, presented an enormous challenge, getting access to an art form that is regarded as
- [Portraits of the Slovenian Living legends](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/living-legends/) - Project shot for Maribor – European Capital od Culture 2012 consist of 15 short ( 5 minutes long) multimedias about Living legends. Interesting, inspring, passionate, hardworking people mainly from North eastern part of Slovenia. We meet and had a chat with a hunter, miner, beekeeper, partisan, photographer, vine maker, shoe maker, ironsmith, herbalist, firefighter, innovator….
- [Hrib Svobode](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/hrib-svobode/)
- [Celebrity portraits](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/celebrity-portraits/) - Portraits of people that you might have came across while watching Tv or flicking throught the magazines.
- [Freedom hill Fashion editorial](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/freedom-hill-fashion-editorial/) - A fashion editorial photographed for a Goodlife magazine. Location is a brutalist monument in Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia. The moument is designed by architect Janez Lenassi and it was built in 1965. Model: Barbara Pirih Stylist: Barbara Podlogar Makeup Artist: Špela Veble
- [Advertising](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/advertising/) - Selected advertising campaigns from around the world.
- [Mars on Earth - Ongoing](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/mars-on-earth-ongoing/) - I spent last 5 years photographing and interviewing a new generation of space explorers in the United States, China, Japan, South Africa and Europe. A diverse and engaged community of scientists, entrepreneurs, and creatives revealed itself. From doctors creating avatars to guide surgeries across vast distances, to agricultural entrepreneurs building greenhouse and hydroponic technologies for
- [Chef JB](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/chef-jb/) - Portraits taken for the cook book of JB - Janez Bratovž, best (known) chef in Slovenia. We have travelled entire Slovenia and surroundings to visit his suppliers. From best truffles, trout fish, pumpkin seeds oil to best wine and even bear meat.
- [Wow Taobao 2020](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/wow-taobao-2020/) - Taobao.com is one of the top 10 most visited websites in the world. The e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba serves consumer-to-consumer businesses all over China and Chinese-speaking regions. The great variety of sellers and limited amount of cash spent on photography, make it a walhalla for those enjoying the genre of “useful photography”. For this
- [His story](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/his-story/)
- [Her story](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/her-story/) - Image caption will come here
- [3DPRK 2nd edition 2018](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/3dprk-2nd-edition-2018/)
- [3DPRK 1st edition 2016](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/3dprk-1st-edition-2016/) - Invited to document North Korea in 3D, Slovenian photographer Matjaž Tančič wanted to show something of the people who live there, stripped of rhetoric. Choosing to take portraits of people in North Korea invites controversy, criticism and significant challenges. In the eyes of the Western world North Korea is one of the few countries where photographic voyeurism is celebrated. Working within the rules of the North Korean regime invites accusation of being naïve or, worse, a ‘useful idiot’ of taking on the work of a complex and powerful propaganda machine. North Korea is one of the most restrictive societies on Earth; all visitors to the country must be invited, and all are required to travel with guides representing the organization that invited them. There have been multiple instances in the past of ‘tourists’ repackaging and selling their images to the global press. In North Korea there is an inherent distrust of Western photographers. Capturing a ‘rare glimpse’ of a North Korean person, photographed at speed from a moving bus, or through a doorway, taps into our colonial desire to be the ‘first’ to see something, and in doing so successfully captures the interest of a Western audience. The ‘rare glimpse’ has become so oxymoronically common, we can now call it a trope of North Korean photography. But forgotten, or dismissed, in this never-ending quest for unseen images in our over-stimulated modern world, are the subjects of these ‘rare glimpses’: the North Korean people whose images have been captured. This specific nature of the 3D technique he used required introduction and demonstration and encouraged interest and exchange between photographer and subject. This exchange, facilitated by our guides, translators and interested onlookers allowed us to bypass, somewhat, the more commonly experienced
- [Timekeepers 2012](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/timekeepers-2012/) - What really keeps time – clocks or memories? »Timekeeper« is a series of 3D photographs by Matjaž Tančič, inspired by the set up of Hui-style living rooms in the old village houses of Yixian. As one enters these dwellings, the eye is again and again greeted by the same sight: a small altar comprised of
- [NEWS](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/news/) - The most recent showcase of the series 3DPRK was at the international photo festival Jimei x Arles in Xiamen, China. With the curators Victoria Jonathan and Berenice Angremy we prepared a unique installation with the 65 stereoviewers.
- [Mao impersonators China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/viva-mao/) - Before long, the Chairman had seeped into every aspect of Yan’s daily life—“I watch my words and behaviors at all time and places”—hijacking his mind. When he traveled to Hunan, where Mao was born, after painstakingly mastering Mao's thick southern accent (Yan is from northeast China), the crowd around him fell to the ground, kneeling
- [3DPRK](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/3dprk-2/) - Invited to document North Korea in 3D by Koryo Studio, Slovenian photographer Matjaž Tančič wanted to show something of the people who live there, stripped of rhetoric. Choosing to take portraits of people in North Korea invites controversy, criticism and significant challenges. In the eyes of the Western world, North Korea is one of the
- [Temple street KTV - Hong Kong](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/temple-street-ktv/) - First time I wondered in this karaoke bar by accident. I followed a long haired gentleman with a colorful shirt and slick trousers. Was wondering where is he going dressed that well. Night that followed was full of interesting people coming in and out and many many toast, playing dice and tiping the singers. I
- [Death on the stage - China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/death-in-hengdian/) - In Hengdian, Zhejiang province, China lies the worlds biggest film studio. It is also know as Chinawood. At the studios there are more than 40.000 registered actors and extras from all around China but also abroad. This is the place where 70% of all Chinese movies are filmed. They are mostly periodical dramas and films
- [Cholliwood - Movie industry in China](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/cholliwood/) - In Hengdian, Zhejiang province, China lays the worlds biggest film studio. It is also know as Chollywood. At the studios there are more than 40.000 registered actors and extras from all around China but also abroad. This is the place where 70% of all Chinese movies are filmed. They are specialized in periodical dramas and
- [Heroes - Samos Refuges](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/heroes/) - Gods and Men Told throughout time are the stories of ordinary men and women who transcend their mortality to become myths, icons, legends – gods who walk the earth. But what is it that elevates one individual above the rest? How does a human of flesh and blood transform into an idea? Slovenian photographer MatjažTančič
- [Punk in Myanmar](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/punk-in-myanmar/) - Punk is not dead, at least not in Myanmar. There was lots said and done on this topic in previous years but as a punk nostalgic I just wanted to go for a special New Years concert. The concert happened under a highway in the suburbs of Yangon and the only source of the electricity
- [3DPRK - North Korea](https://matjaztancic.com/swiper_portfolio/3dprk/) - Invited to document North Korea in 3D by Koryo Studio, Slovenian photographer Matjaž Tančič wanted to show something of the people who live there, stripped of rhetoric. Choosing to take portraits of people in North Korea invites controversy, criticism and significant challenges. In the eyes of the Western world, North Korea is one of the
- [Arhitektura](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/arhitektura/)
- [Modna fotografija](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/modna-fotografija/)
- [Chic china](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/moda-na-kitajskem/)
- [Advertising](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/advert-2/) - Izbrani oglaševalski projekti.
- [Heroji](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/heroji/)
- [Novi varuhi Kitajske](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/novi-varuhi-kitajske/)
- [Novice](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/novice/)
- [Varuhi časa](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/varuhi-casa/)
- [Karakoke bar - Hong Kong](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/tempeljska-ulica-ktv/)
- [Njena zgodba](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/njena-zgodba/) - Njena zgodba caption will come here
- [Viva Mao](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/viva-mao-2/)
- [Cholliwood](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/cholliwood-2/)
- [Yangon Burning](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/yangon-burning-slo/)
- [Mila krasna](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/mila-krasna-2/)
- [New age](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/new-age-2/)
- [Pod vodo](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/pod-vodo/)
- [Neon Hong Konga](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/neon-hong-konga/)
- [Zadnji vlak domov](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/zadnji-vlak-domov/)
- [Surfanje po kitajsko](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/surfanje-po-kitajsko/)
- [Tetovaže v Šanghaju](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/tetovaze-v-sanghaju/)
- [Chef JB](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/chef-jb-2/)
- [Žive legende](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/zive-legende/)
- [Njegova zgodba](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/njegova-zgodba/)
- [I am famous](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/i-am-famous-2/)
- [Smrt v Hengdianu](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/swiper_portfolio/smrt-v-hengdianu/)

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://matjaztancic.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Stories](https://matjaztancic.com/category/stories/)
- [Commercial](https://matjaztancic.com/category/commercial/) - I did a fair bit of advertising, hospitality, luxury, industrial and architecture photography.
- [Uncategorized](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/category/uncategorized-sk/)
- [Zgodbe](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/category/zgodbe/)
- [Serije](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/category/serije/)
- [Portreti](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/category/portreti/)
- [Komerciale](https://matjaztancic.com/sk/category/komerciale/)
- [Books](https://matjaztancic.com/category/books/) - Photo books published since 2012.

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