Who are we

Simona Šivec (photographer, cameraman, journalist, Golo pri Igu)

I have been travelling all my life, I could say. When I was a child I travelled with my thoughts watching documentaries or reading various magazines. I admired the world and it attracted me endlessly. Amazing countries, hidden places, cultures, different people, nature, animals, all this was born with me, in me. Why Africa? I don’t know the exact answer I just know that it is inside me and I can’t describe it with words. These feelings which grew up with me grew beyond the limits of my body. Now I live my dreams and follow them.

After short trips around Europe, I travelled around Peru and Bolivia for one month and then set out for a six-month-travel around New Zealand and Australia. I gathered a collection of numerous breathtaking photos. Through photography and filming I can show my creativity and I know that this is what I can do all my life. From the last travel I reported for the Radio Slovenia in the programme “Gori, Doli, Naokoli” (Up, Down, Around) and had an interview on the radio Zeleni Val before I set off and when I came back. I also held a presentation of my travel in the Fran Govekar Ig Club, and now the number of invitations for presentations is only rising. I wrote also two articles about my journeys and they were published in magazines Svet in Ljudje (World and People) and Horizont (Horizon).
When I came back from the travels I thought: “Dreams are possible if you let yourself dream.”

Eva Tomšič (9.3.1978, traveller, explorer, photographer, moviemaker, journalist, microbiologist, Rova pri Radomljah)

I have been dreaming about travelling for almost all my life, but my first real travel didn’t take place long ago. I made a three-month journey to Brazil in the beginning of 2007. With another two travel companions we travelled around this beautiful country from the Amazonas region on the north to the giant metropolises Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo thousands kilometres to the south. On this journey a lot of photo material has been made, we have been also reporting to our national Radio Slovenia and constantly writing an internet blog, where people could follow our adventures. In the beginning of 2008 I returned to Brazil, to the north-eastern region Pernambuco, where I participated in (according to the Guinness World records) the biggest carnival in the world by the number of participants - Galo Da Madrugada. Through this I experienced their rich culture, openness and friendliness of people, their rich culinary delights and many many other things. This time my path will lead me to the Sub-Saharan Africa.

“A man must travel. On his own, not through stories, pictures, books or TV. He’s got to travel by himself, with his eyes and feet, to understand what belongs to him. To plant his own trees one day and to value them. He must know the cold to enjoy the heat. And the opposite. Feel the distance and absence of shelter to feel well under his own roof. A man must travel to places that he does not know to break the arrogance that makes people see the world as they imagine it, and not simply as it is or can be. The arrogance that makes us teachers and doctors of what we have not seen, when we should only be students and simply go and learn.”

Amyr Klink (Brazilian sailor and explorer)