My practice focuses on long-term documentary research that explores the human situation in certain socio-political contexts, as well as issues of identity, in particular, re-examining terms such as patriotism and nostalgia by considering the connection between lived history and sentimentality.
At the same time, as an artist who mainly articulates his works through a documentary approach, experimenting with the opportunity of converting them to site-specific installations, my interest also lies in the research of the value of the photographic medium.

People make an important part of my work, in context of creation of relationships and way of communicating with them. I build my relation towards them through introspection and coincidences on street labyrinths. As a photographer, I have a feeling that I am affected by some sensitive contexts, such as poverty, incurable illness and various manipulations and schemes like selling a single apartment to several buyers at the same time.
Sometimes ironically, I offer a photograph as an object of exchange in kind, but in essence I sincerely strive for the exchange of goods, stories, and objects.

My interest in photography is based on topics, events, and historical periods, which I have never witnessed, but which directly and indirectly affect the time in which I live. Hence, ideological differences inspire me to share my photographic work with people coming from different regions. In doing so, I make comparisons, but I also recognize the socio-political developments and their effects.

Zoran Shekerov, 2017
Artist Statement