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.

Sonja Marinsek Photo

Sonja Marinsek