Since 1996 he has been the resident photographer of the Skopje jazz festival in Macedonia, where each year a calender with his photos is published. Last year he held a major exhibition at the Skopje City Museum to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the festival, which was accompanied by a book predominantly featuring Koritnik's photographs. In 2001 he spent seven weeks in New York, where he documented the Vision Festival and became acquainted with the musical and artistic events in the city. He was afforded the oppurtunity to exhibit in the Kavehaz Gallery in Soho, which will result in another exhibiton at the famous New York Mannes college of Music ( a divison of New school University). His photographs are regulary published in Slovene newspapers and magazines (including Delo, Mladina, Muska, and Fotografija) as weel in international publications (Time out, Jazz times, Jazziz, Signal to noise, Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik, Ballett Unternationale, Village Voice, and All About jazz).

He is also involved in theater photography and has regulary collaborated with the Mladinsko gledališce Ljubljana. He has worked with Iztok's Kovac's En-Knap dance company, for which he documented performances, and shot an accompanying film of their performance Dalec od specih psov (Afar from sleeping dogs), as well a film about composer Vinko Globokar, and also the latest film, Krotilci casa (The Time Tamers). Since 1989 he has been employed by the Slovene national television station Televizija Slovenija as a TV and film cameraman, and has worked with the directors Maja Weiss, Peter Braatz, Amir Muratovic, Sašo Podgoršek and Micahel Benson. In 2001 he documented the making of Peter Greenawy's Map to Pardise in Ljubljana, which was followed this year by the publication of a book with extracts from his documentation of Greenaway's film, the creation of which is still underway.

In 1996 he self-published a book of photographs entitled Jazzy-ga! (Jazz-it!). To mark the occasion, he held an exhibiton at one of the major European jazz festivals in Saalfelden, Austria. His photos have also appeared in may books by other authors, including a book on the sculptor Jakov Brdar, whose sculpting of general Rudolf Meister he documented, and Colors of Music, published for the 20th anniversary of the Saalfelden jazz festival. Žiga Koritnik also created cover of the Slovene translation of the autobiography of Miles Davis. He invited the photographers Mauro D'Agati, Raffaella Cavalieri, Matthiass Creutziger, Manfred Rinderspacher and Enid Farber to exhibit at the Ljubljana jazz Festival in Slovenia. He has collaborated with the publishers of Mladinska knjiga magazines, and the company Hit Nova Gorica. He is a member of the Jazz Journalists Association. His photographs have illustrated the covers of CDs releases by labels such as Tzadik, Intuition Music, Nika Records and Leo Records. In 1997 the Italian photo magazine Zoom featured presentation articcle on Žiga Koritnik. He heldover 20 solo and 10 group exhibitions. He has received the Special recognition award at the Olympus photo competition in Japan, and the Zlata diploma (Golden diploma) award for the annual report by HIT Nova Gorica.

Visit Žiga's website at http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/koritnik/.

All photographs copyright © Žiga Koritnik. All Rights Reserved.

Žiga Koritnik portrait by Primoz Zrnec

Herbie Hancock
Skopje jazz festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 1999.

Teri Lyne Carrington
Skopje jazz festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 1999.

Don Byron & Ron Miles
Skopje jazz festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 2001.

Femi Anikalupo Kuti
Musique Mettisses, Angouleme, France, 1998.

Tito Puente
Skopje jazz festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 1996.

Brad Jones
Skopje jazz festival, Skopje, Macedonia, 1998.

Amina Baraka
Vision festival, New York, U.S.A., 2001.

Kenny Barron
JJA Awards at the Birdland, New York, U.S.A., 2001.