02   About

Vasja Doberlet lives in Kranj – Slovenia, he is a retired engineer. Already as a student, he started to exhibit in 1968. So, he already has more than 50 years devoted to photography.

For 13 years (2001-2015) he was chairman of Janez Puhar Photo Society in Kranj. In this period he was one of the driving forces to organize ten FIAP paper salons – Miniature. Four times his club organized the “Puhar days” event under FIAP Auspices (several individual exhibitions of authors from Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia). Now he acts as a board member of the Photographic Association of Slovenia. As FIAP Liaison Officer he has represented Slovenia at FIAP for more than 15 years.

He was exhibiting his photographs in 60 countries in all continents. Altogether he participated at more than 800 salons with about 3000 photographs and he received about 200 awards.

Vasja had 37 personal exhibitions in several places in Slovenia, Athens – Greece, Budapest – Hungary, Gorizia – Italy, and in two places in Croatia: Zagreb and Novigrad.

In 2008 Vasja received a master distinction (MF FZS) at the Slovenian Photo Association, in 2014 he received MFIAP, and in 2022 EFIAP/d1. For his organizational achievements on the international level, he received HonEFIAP in 2023.

He was invited to judge international salons, the FIAP World Cup, the FIAP biennial in Russia, and FIAP salons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Italy, North Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine.