Klavdij Sluban »
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Guangzhou Photo Biennial 2005
Exhibition: 18 Jan – 28 Feb 2005
Guangdong Museum of Art
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In 1995, he created a photography workshop for teenagers in the Juvenile Detention Center in Fleury-Mérogis (South of Paris, biggest jail in Europe). The adolescents are taught a creative approach, development and printing. Their work is regularly shown inside the jail. Henri Cartier-Bresson has been coming since the beginning of this project several times a year, Willam Klein and Marc Riboud also attended to encourage them. Since 1998,following these projects, he started working with young prisoners in the former Soviet-Union (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Latvia), with a similar photographic exchange. In 2000, Klavdij Sluban created a photographic workshop in Celje, Slovenia, in the only national prison for teenagers.