BALKAN PANK

Joze Suhadolnik
BALKAN PANK

Photographs: Joze Suhadolnik

Publisher: Akina Books

108 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Hand-made coptic binding. Screenprinted hardcover on 1400 micron board. 245x185mm. Limited edition of only 50. RARE.

Balkan Pank is an original view of ex-Jugoslavia counterculture during the 1979-89 decade, an underrepresented period of punk attitude without the uniform in a non-aligned Communist country, a group of people escaping a dictatorship through their own set of rules.

Jože Suhadolnik started this project when he was 13 year old. He was an insider of the 80s punk and squat movement and also an extremely promising young photojournalist, drawn to counterculture, alternative ways of living and genuine rebellion, his curiosity lead us to the hidden corners of in underground labyrintine squats and illegal gigs where he started documenting the vibrant energy of the nights when bands with names like The Bastards and VideoSex used to play.