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BIO

1970 - Born in Subotica, Yugoslavia

1976 - First friends

1977- Start playing tennis and school

1983 - First kiss

1984 - First drunkeness

1985 - School, first discoveries, poetry, solitude, feeling being different and loving it, start reading lots of books

1989 - Forced into the army. New friends. Learn to hate structure and uniforms

1991- Forced into war. Learn about propaganda, hate, stupidity, lies and pain

1993 - Left home. Left country. Real life started. Learn to starve, write books, live somewhere as a refugee, learn about hope, kindness and cruelty. Learn about bottom dwellers.

1994 - Went to Canada. Writing, starving, friends, multiculturalism, girlfriends that taught me the world, shitty jobs, photography. Rachel.

2000 - Africa - people, friends, art, life and death, self discovery.

2001- Australia. Rachel, photography, living above butcher that is waking us up every 4.30am, going crazy, old people, learning about dignity, washing dishes, dignity again.

2003 - Detainee in British detention centre, back to Yugoslavia, to home, back to Australia, tropics, working with people with dementia, learning about memories, teaching at Uni photoshop and photography, learning about spreading the spirit, selling my prints at local market, our first dog dies, pain

2006 - Our own church in Tasmania, building our home. Learning about home. Our little daugther Ella, learning about perfect love. Photography. People with disabilities. Mining.