About me
I am a father of four, married in the peaceful surroundings of the Slovenian countryside. I live in the awareness of the transience of moments, but at the same time of the importance of investing in eternity and impermanence. As a Christian, I try to be a companion to everyone.
My first contact with real photography was black-and-white family memories from Bled, where my family and I spent almost every weekend in the early 80s. Carefree January ice skating to the island. My mother was a teacher in a student dormitory in Ljubljana, where she led a photography club at the time. I had never seen her with a silver metal camera before or since. As a child, I would leaf through the family album, look at those illuminated pages, and relive a perfect day. I wanted to master this science myself. At home, my father was the house photographer, who had an Agfa, which had only one button and a flash in a cube, for four flashes. We took pictures at birthdays and occasionally at sea. One film of frames per year. That’s why the moments when my father used an Agfa were really important. Ceremonial, almost mystical.
Eighteen years later, I held my first metal and analog Yashica camera in my hands. I lived to see it. That’s when my path began, which led me away from the one I had planned.
- 1996 – 2004 Faculty of Arts, studying history independently
- 1998 – 2008 Self-employed freelance photojournalist
- 2008 – 2022 Regular employee of STA (Slovenian News Agency).
- Official photographer of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia
- Official photographer of the Cabinet of the Prime Minister
- Official photographer of the Office of the President of the Republic
- Official photographer of the Protocol of the Republic of Slovenia
- 2019 Photo report Pleterje in National Geographic Slovenia
- 2021 Award of the Slovenian Journalists Association—Watchdog—for the report Pleterje in National Geographic Slovenia
- 2022 Photo report Life with Nature in National Geographic Slovenia
- 2022 Self-employed freelance photojournalist, Tamino Petelinšek s.p.
I work both at home and abroad, where I do not seek out crisis situations. I feel best in humanitarian projects and among people who contribute to a better future with their active attitude.
