THE GREAT STORIES BY
25 TALENTED EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHERS:
NENAD SALJIC

 

IPA/Lucie Awards, Los Angeles, USA, 2016:

Third Place Award – Book “MATTERHORN: Portrait of a Mountain“ – Professional Nature Category

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PARIS, FRANCE

PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS (PX3)  2016

Silver Award Winner – Book “MATTERHORN: Portrait of a Mountain” – Professional Nature Category

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Don’t be misled by the prosaic title of this book. The Matterhorn is hardly “just a mountain.” Straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy, the Matterhorn may not be the world’s tallest pinnacle, but it’s arguably the most dramatic, its almost perfect pyramidal shape offering four distinct faces to the world. The British art critic John Ruskin called it “the most noble cliff in Europe.”

Nearly as awe-inspiring are the images that Croatian photographer Nenad Saljic has made of the Hornli Ridge, which connects the East and North faces of this fabled peak. A mountaineer in his youth, Saljic utilized time exposures to capture the sweeping movement of clouds and the streaking paths of stars in images of infinite variety and fascination. His photographs graphically invoke the Matterhorn’s mystique and majesty, as well as its menace—some 500 climbers have died trying to summit it—while seemingly evoking its past, present and future.
By Dean Brierly
Black & White Magazine, Issue 112, Dec 2015, USA

Similar to Japanese woodcut artist Katsushika Hokusai’s 36 views of Mount Fuji, here Croatian photographer Nenad Šaljić focuses on capturing the essence of the almost perfectly shaped pyramid peak that is the Matterhorn. Alongside his 43 black & white pictures, Šaljić includes historic moments related to the mountain.

By Anna Bonita Evans
Outdoor Photography (UK), 197, Out There
September 2015