Biography

Jaka Babnik (1979) graduated from social studies and history at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, and has been working as a photographer and cinematographer since 1996. He was editor of photography for Slovenian-Croatian skateboard magazine Pendrek (1998-2006) and co-founder and editor of street magazine Kontejner (2006-2009). He is the writer and director of several renowned skateboard films such as Damage (2002) and Listen to Srecna Mladina (2005). Currently he works as a photographer, artist and publisher who gained local and international acclaim with the projects such as We Are Dogs! (2007-2009), Jebodrom (2014), Holy Land (2017), Why So Serious? (2016-2017), Heroes of My Time (2017), Pygmalion (2018-2019) and Time Levelling (2020). He initiated a collective publishing project Photographs for Illustration Purposes Only (2020) which was released in the form of a newspaper. He is co-founder and co-owner (together with  Boštjan Pavletič) of an independent publishing house Rostfrei Publishing that, since 2012, produces artist books and photo books. He lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia.