Underneath This Hat- Chemigram Print - Limited Edition of 7

Dejan Štifanić is a Croatian Photographer and Visual Artist. His day job as a photojournalist for over two decades had resulted in thousands of portrait, street and lifestyle photographs, published in various publications and exhibited in dosens of exhibitions. In 2017, he wanted to take a step further, to cross over into the unknown; he created a series of chemigrams- a photographer's intervention on an empty photo paper and exhibited them with great success as "Photography of the Mind". "The starting point of this series of works is the tradition of working in the darkroom, however, in this instance, without the accompanying photographic apparatus. These works fall into the sphere of alternative photographic practices, and are created directly by the effect of chemicals onto an empty photo paper, i.e. large-format color film. Using photographic materials, the author does not create a photograph, but a chemigram. In that manner, Štifanić's work moves away from photography and gets closer to the act of painting. It is an intuitive, experimental act, without knowing what the end result will be. He gets under the skin of an undeveloped film, revealing the unsuspected possibilities of an interaction between chemistry, matter and magic." Eugen Borowsky, August 2018