Boris Cvjetanović (1953) graduated from the department of fine art at the Faculty of Teacher Training in Zagreb. From 1976 to 1984, he worked as a sculptor conservationist at the Conservation Institute. He has pursued photography professionally since 1984. In 1987-1988 he was the photography editor of Studentski list. Cvjetanović’s work can be divided into cycles of anxious and poignant photographs depicting socially marginalised people (Mesnička Street 6, Manhole People, Hospital, Mum in Prison, Workers) and cycles of peaceful, tranquil photographs (Summer Holidays, Meaningless Scenes, Photographed, The New Sky). Unlike the usual practice in photography, where anxiety, misery and problems are counterpointed with glamour, Cvjetanović’s counterpoint to anxiety is genuine closeness and privacy. He normally uses a fixed framing style in his photography, devoid of compositional exhibitionism; the image is still, atmospheric and genuinely compassionate. Cvjetanović is a photographer who meditates a motif and does not try to capture it.