Arkadij Popovic Arkadij Popovic Dr. Arkadij Popovic was born in 1941 in Ljubljana. He is currently working at the Institute of Jozef Stefan. In the sixties he joined DRM, The Society for the exploration of the sea. There, he was running the section for underwater photography. He also won a gold medal of Boris Kidric, recognition for special credit for propagation of technical culture in ex-Yugoslavia.
People mostly take photographs on dry land.
Then came Lei Riefenstahl, who at her sixties went under water and took pictures. Of course people did it before her, but she was the one who popularised underwater photography and she became the photographer of the year 1975 in Germany. Since then everybody is looking at underwater photography a little bit differently. The photographs of Arkadij Popovic show us the world that most people don't see or know. Underneath, a human is always just an observer, maybe a hunter, but always a stranger.