My story
I was born and grew up in Trieste, and starting from young age I have always felt a deep attraction for nature. Immediately committed to defending the environment (participating in various ecological battles with great enthusiasm).
I discovered the expressive potential of photography very late in my life. Imagining that I could witness life, the diversity of the environments in which I have always moved with absolute respect, became a reality between 2011 and 2013. A lifelong globetrotter, I began to attempt to express, with love and passion, my connection to all that is nature by returning to many places where I had spent previous experiences as a simple observer.
Photography quickly became my way of narrating my travels. A notebook in which I add all my absolute attachment to nature and man. I want to affirm the principle of respect for every creature through authentic photography, not orchestrated or constructed.
I feel a responsibility to show that nature photography without artefacts and unnecessary violence to animals.
Never as now, I want to try to denounce that man who seeks exploitation, including tourism or land-grabbing, from the true masters of the earth who are all living beings, whether plants or animals.
I often remember the words of Henri Cartier Bresson who said that ‘photography is a way of life’.
In this thought my desire to bear witness to the existence of every creature, I try to develop my research in which love coexists in recounting the eternal cycle of life in all its aspects.

This photograph has become the emblem of my current existence. Age and health are the factors that rule the days. The landscape around it is that of the place where I have always been best, and I feel like the antelope heading elsewhere. Whoever sees the photograph is left behind, forever. Africa is my home and just like any other creature on earth, it has a time to be born, to grow and to go. It is, for everyone, the great, eternal circle of life.

Sonja Marinsek