I was thinking and dreaming so much about my future last days. At the end of high school, we, young people, have to ask ourselves many questions. What we wanna do in the future?

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there—Bo Jackson

My career in the field of photography, blogging and journalism started already and I will work as much as I can to improve it. The current dilemma is where to go after high school. I’m closely related to the art(s) and I’ll try to enroll in the art academy, that’s my first wish and goal. I trust in myself, but in a case of fail there is always another option—I’m going to work on myself and improve my (special) skills, blog a lot, read and learn a lot, meet new cool and dear people, maybe change my location, drink as much as possible cups of tea, write a book maybe, photograph a lot and spend a year without the college. I do not wanna study something stupid and boring, one year off education is ok.

Following my dreams is going well so far and I’m really happy about everything I’ve done. I wanna live from photography and this blog in the future, I will wait for that moment until it happen. New equipment is necessary, I need a new camera, lens and maybe a laptop. Working whole summer to buy it sounds good. That’s my passion and I have to invest into it. 2010 is a year full of challenges, let’s see what will happen next.

I can’t remember how much times I’ve attended the largest and my favorite regional photo festival, Rovinj Photodays. That’s the best weekend for me and my friends, photographers at the summer. I’ve met so much creative people, my current friends and some of photos I’ve shot during Photodays were a part of my solo exhibition called “In focus”. Completely great experience. So far I was just a competitor, but this year I am an official blogger. Proudly! That means you can follow whole event on Die without Art. Do not miss it!

Rovinj Photodays have turned into a magnificent holiday of photography, full of true artistic pleasures and top achievements of masters of the game of light, but also of entertainment, professional furthering, exchange of experience and acquainting with the latest technologies. Everything is in one place, in the ambiance of the unique Rovinj and its hospitable hosts. This was really a great holiday of Croatian photography that this year experienced an international reaction due to the arrival of prominent world names in artistic and fashion photography.

Every day, during my searching for interesting stories and creative brains, I usually stop by on modest websites which impress me with the small details. And again I have very-very interesting story, about Umber studios. I talked to lovely Jessica who told me more about their creative space.

She decided to open a commission free gallery four years ago, after many years of showing at galleries and truely disliking the strange effect it seemed to have on artists, including herself. It is her opinion (and opinion only) that art’s main purpose is to be viewed, seen, money is secondary.

Most galleries take too much commission and strip the artist of any of their love and happiness, art for art’s sake.

Two days off and I’m back with the very interesting story about Jan Schjetne, a fashion photographer working in London and Oslo. Sit back and enjoy, he’s such a worthy guy.

Jan never really thought much about photography before he got into photo blogging. He was a web developer back in the days, and he built a photo diary for Mr. Naughty James and his 1095 Project. Jan also built his own photo diary as well, borrowed a digital camera from the advertising agency he worked in, and started photographing his life and experiences. He got really into it, and started imagining a professional life with camera in hand.

As a fashion photographer and a student in London you’re constantly surrounded by chaos, drugs, parties, booze, women… And I got sucked right into that lifestyle.

After almost two months of writing and sharing very interesting stories from all over the creative globe, I’ve decided to run a very simple giveaway with a cool gift.

This is the first giveaway here on DwA. When I came to the idea to give something away to my readers I didn’t know what to give and what to ask in return. I realized that the tees from the huge Threadless collection are enough awesome for the creative artists and in a hope you will like it I’ve run this giveaway.

More info inside!

My dear guys Sanja and Pedja have decided to make a pair of gadget-friendly geek jeans called WTFJeans. They have simply wanted to make 2 pairs of jeans, one pair for each one. They just wanted to have a jeans which they really like. A pair that is comfortable, of a nice denim color and with some nicely fitted pockets which are big enough to put their iPhones, but at the same time not too big as at those baggy hip-hoppers jeans. And after less than a 3 months we got their product available for purchase via online shop.

After two interesting stories about Marta and Lindsay time is for some typography ‘n’ print. Below you can see a poster made by Lotta Nieminen in a collaboration with Otto Donner for Helsinki Letters, a kit to document the city’s typographic development.

It seems DwA is becoming a home of interesting worth-reading stories. Today I’m glad to present you Lindsay Adler, a professional fashion and portrait photographer from New York-London route. I’ve done an awesome interview with her, enjoy.

I’ve read you began photographing at age 13, that’s amazing. How you started? With camera obscura?

I first started photography at age 13 as a way to share time with my mother and grandmother. Both were hobbyist photographers and we lived on a large farm in upstate NY that provided ample photographic opportunities. We would take walks together and photograph whatever we saw—fall foliage, mushrooms, farm animals, hay fields, and more.

Photography took on an important significance in those early days. First, it was an important memory sharing time with my grandma who later died of cancer. Second, it instilled in me the ability to appreciate the beauty around me. It is far too easy to become blind to all the beautiful things around you—you see them everyday and they just become ‘normal’. But photography provided me a way to explore and appreciate my environment.

Whole interview is inside (don’t forget to read short advices for the beginners on the bottom)!

Writing about people who I really like has always been the best spent time, love and passion. Today’s very interesting story is about my dear friend Marta Lamovšek, a photographer and art director extraordinary currently based in London. She was very individualistic as a kid and she still is. Marta’s personality is Idealist Champion, that’s means she is here to inspire (her primary purpose in this word).

My life has always been an exciting drama, pregnant with possibilities, I always had a passion for novelty. The only thing I never seem to get bored of is meeting really fascinating people who inspires me.

Some of people are watching me kinda what a hell are you doing? O’yes I’m blogging and it makes me happy. (Un)fortunately, they don’t understand nothing else in spite of, for example, losing time on Facebook. They are not ambitious at all, just click here, click there, with no any special sense. Who cares, it’s their life. Let’s back to ours.

Artists were always incomprehensible and what’s wrong with that? Our work is our inside expression, you can like it or not. Being an artists is a big advantage. You can sit on the ground in the middle of the street at the summer season, drawing your masterpiece. Passers are watching? No problem, they are just a piece of the urban environment.

Many times people were gathered around me when I was holding my camera and performing, creeping on the street etc. That’s what I like in the public, relaxed you can do anything.

Wearing “strange” clothes can be unacceptable for an serious businessman, but not for you, a person with creative brain. Look, I’m writing this article next to 5 people who are loud-talking about… actually I can’t hear them thanks to Mory Kanté on my iPod . I’m in my world.