Klavdij Sluban is a French photographer of Slovenian origin born in Paris in 1963.Winner of the Prix de Photographie de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts de l'Institut de France (2015), the Villa Kujoyama (2015), the European Publishers Award for Photography (2009), the Leica Prize (2004), the Niépce Prize, main French prize in photography (2000), the Villa Medici Hors-les-Murs (1998).He develops a rigorous and coherent body of work, nourished by literature, never inspired by immediate and sensational events, making him one of the most interesting photographers of his generation. Klavdij Sluban questions the contemporary world throughout a specific photographic writing, dark yet poetic, working on long term projects in countries, islands, prisons, where time and space are condensed. The Balkans, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, former Yugoslavia, former Soviet Union, the Caribbean, Central America, the Antarctic, China, Japan... can be read as many successive steps of an in-depth interpretation of the encountered reality.Klavdij Sluban is represented by Gallery Klüser, Germany, VA Gallery, Hong Kong.www.sluban.com www.facebook.com/klavdij.sluban