Danko Maksimovic
My name is Danko Maksimovic, I am 33 years old and I live in Belgrade, Serbia.
Five years ago I bought an old russian camera Zenit 12XP and started
shooting photos of my friends. Instantly, I fell in love with colours
and the magic atmosphere of film photography. The experience has totally
changed my visual perception of the world around me.
My favorite camera is Praktica LTL 3 with Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm
lens and I like to use Kodak Gold 200 and Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 films.
My work is mostly inspired by the French Novuelle Vague cinema movement.
But I also draw inspiration from movies with impressive cinematography
such as: Zerkalo (Tarkovsky), Badlands and Days of Heaven (Malick), The
Conformist (Bertolucci), Pretty Baby (Malle), Possession (Zulawski),
Christiana F. (Edel) and many others... As for photographers whose work I
think is admirable I would mention Sally Mann, Larry Clark ("Tulsa"
photobook) and Mariam Sitchinava.