2016 Sony World Photography Awards - Category Winner, Travel, Open Competition
Andrej Tarfila comes from a little village called Selca, in Slovenia. Photography caught his eye during his childhood. However, his career path led him to engineering (R&D). After buying a digital camera, Andrej rediscovered his childhood passion. Gaining success in Slovenia and abroad gave him extra motivation to keep working in the field of photography. Life with a camera in his hand became his everyday reality. Whether it is photographing for press or for personal pleasure, Andrej Tarfila tries to preserve special moments in which he finds and highlihts hidden messages, invisible to the eyes of ordinary observers.