Joco Žnidaršič

Joco Žnidaršič (20 March 1938 – 28 November 2022) was a Slovenian photojournalist and editor.

Life Žnidaršič was born in Šoštanj, Drava Banovina. By 1963, he completed 10 semesters of medical studies at the Medical Faculty of the University in Ljubljana. During his studies, he got involved in documentary and artistic photography and later fully focused on this activity. He was a photojournalist with Študentska tribuna, TT, Tovariš, and for 24 years, since 1974 to his retirement, as a photo editor at Delo. He was a freelance photojournalist and a co-owner of the Veduta AŽ company, which is publishing photobooks.

Work In addition to journalism, Žnidaršič in collaboration with other prominent writers (e.g. Matjaž Kmecl, Ciril Zlobec, Željko Kozinc) created numerous photobooks, which established him as one of the most prominent Slovenian artistic and documentary photographers. He created a number of them,

Recognition Joco Žnidaršič was awarded the title "Excellence FIAP" (EFIAP) in 1975. In 2005, a documentary was broadcast about Žnidaršič on Slovenian national TV.