Over the Danube from the river's source to the delta
After several years of intensive preparations, collection of manuals, location filming, and several publications of photo-monographs, a team of authors led by Dragoljub Zamurovic decided to accede the final phase in the realization of their project entitled The Danubian Odyssey
Until June 2008, the team will travel along the Danube, its confluents and nearby canals in Serbia. Besides from the water and from the mainland, the people and the landscapes will be air photographed from a balloon. Thanks to special equipment the underwater world will also be shoot. The intention is to take several hundred thousands of digital color photographs of highest resolution.
The result of this research foray, should be the publication of a photo-monograph entitled Serbia-The Richness of the Danubian Basin aiming to show the natural beauties, the life and the costumes of the people living in Serbian areas of the Danubian basin. Special attention will be given to the tolerance present among different ethnic and religious communities and to their better mutual understanding. Besides in Serbian, the monograph will be published also in English, German, French, Italian, and Russian language.
The next phase, which begins in July 2008 and lasts until November 2009, includes the presentation of the filmed material to vaster international audience. In this period, the team will travel along the Danube from its source to its delta, through all 10 countries the river crosses. During the journey will be organized a series of exhibitions containing, besides the pictures, also a rich collection of books, among which a replica of the famous monograph Danubius written by the Italian scientist Luigi Fernando Marsigli, published in Amsterdam in 1726.
At the same time, the whole course of the Danube will be shot from a balloon attached to a boat with the intention to realize, from a material this way obtained, a large and luxurious monograph in various languages. Till now, various editors from different countries have been contacted, and many of them have shown the willingness to introduce the publication of the monograph into their editorial programmes.
Contact:
Dragoljub Zamurovic
11000 Belgrad
Resavska 40
Serbia
mob: (+381) 63.238218
Fax: (+381) 11. 2656239
E-mail: artzamur@sbb.co.yu
