JONATHAN CHERRY: Where are you from and how did you get into photography?

BOGDAN RADENKOVIC: I am photographer from Serbia, and as a kid I always wondered to have machine that will ‘store my emotions’. In war “99 I found out that this machine is actually a photo camera. Mr. Bozidar Vlatkovic, museum photographer from my town later taught me the basics of camera usage, developing films and aesthetic principles. I also learned about art forms from my father and all the books I used to read then.

JC: What is your project bed after dreams all about?

BR: If I could literally explain it I surely wouldn’t take those photos. It’s rather emotional. I wanted to express the relief of bed as a link between dreams and things that really happened or are going to happen.

JC: Who are your photography heroes?

BR: Umm, lots of them - from fathers like A. Adams and H. C. Bresson to Stephen Shore, William Eggleston and finally Brian Ulrich, Louis Perreault and other contemporary artists. I find inspiration also in Sartre’s (see ‘La Nausee’), M. Krleža and Nietzsche’s books, Mahler’s symphonies and Wagner’s operas.

JC: What does photography mean to you?

BR: I see photography as a medium between the artist and his work - It’s not important if you paint, make music or movies, shoot film or digital it’s only important what you feel and what you create. I love photography because it always shows the ultimate reality, but it allows infinite interpretations.

JC: What is next for you photographically?

BR: I love to do it without definite plans - I have an idea about one or two books and a few new projects.

JC: Any other thoughts?

BR: Those final thoughts always sounds like a cliché to me.