Balkan Pank (collectors' edition)

by Joze Suhadolnik

Photographs: Joze Suhadolnik

Publisher: Akina Books

108 pages

Pictures: black and white illustrations throughout

Year: 2014

Comments: 180×250 mm, Paper: Fedrigoni Arcoprint, Screenprinted cover on 1400 micron board, 250×185 mm, COPTIC binding, collectors edition of 50

“We used to travel from what was then Yugoslavia twice a year to Trieste on the Italian border to buy jeans,
Brooklyn chewing gum and 20 rolls of Tri-X (they were worth an absolute fortune and lasted at least a few months),
and a Yugoslav custom officer stopped you at the border and humiliated you for the next hour.
I’ve been to about 1,600 concerts on my count; at my first, Siouxsie and the Banshees in 1981, I was able to walk near Siouxsie on the stage!
Can you imagine that today? On the other hand, people were arrested just for wearing a Sex Pistols badge”

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 labyrinthic 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.

Balkan Pank is an account of the 80s Jugoslavian no-futures,  wasted nights and intimate portraits, raw, fun, unkempt, grainy, screaming just as the real thing.

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