Slagjana Novakov is a Roma woman, she is 27 years old, she is not married, she has no children, but she has a degree and regular employment, as well as a beauty that many admire.
In order to lie that "Roma women are a rare inspiration for artists", the photographer Sever Zolak decided to photograph her for the exhibition based on the motives of the artist Paja Jovanovi..
The girl in the photo from North Zolak represents a brave, elegant woman with incredible beauty. Slagjana is an educated Roma woman with an academic degree, who no longer lives in an informal Roma settlement. This is the first time Slagjana has posed. Otherwise, Slagjana grew up far from the aristocracy / but grew up in the Roma settlement in Zrenjanin - Opava.
Otherwise, Slagjana differs in that she has not made any aesthetic corrections so far, but everything is natural. It was not difficult for her to pose. "It would be an honor to have chosen me," said Slagjana, who is considering modeling in the future. She has two other sisters working in Belgrade.
The older nurse graduated from the Faculty of Law and works as a court assistant, and the younger one is a nurse at the Military Medical Academy. All three live with partners but are not married. Otherwise, Slagjana never had a relationship with a Roma, but that is why she had a Romani friend in high school. "She then got married, had children and that's how her career ended. "Now she will be a grandmother," says Slagjana. In Belgrade, except for her sisters, she did not have the opportunity to make friends with Roma. "It does not represent me and it is not an honor for me to be with my people but I can not run in the streets and look for them. I have not had the opportunity and I really do not have such opportunities in the environment !. I have not met such a person yet. "I want to have a normal person with whom I would have a child, but today it is very difficult to find such a person." "I never long for something that is impossible. "When I look at my life - I want to create something, and fight for it," says Slagjana.
