Shifting Into Third

The Graveyard Shift

Photographer

Djordje Zlatanovic

Concept

Shifting Into Third is a series of environmental portraits of the people who work the night shift while the rest of us sleep. As the workforce machinery speeds up its pace every morning, little time do we have to think what goes on during the night. The project will portray the people who are the mechanism that makes the clock tick during the day. Often forgotten, many of these workers are operating in the shadows and on the margins of the society. This project will further explore their work conditions and the effects these conditions have on their lives, both in the domain of health and other possible disturbances. Shifting Into Third will bring this fact back to the daily light, and will serve as a tribute and a “thank you” to millions of graveyard-shift workers.

Biography

Originally from the former Yugoslavia, Djordje Zlatanovic immigrated to the United States in 2001. His choice to follow a path of photojournalism came as a natural one: losing his country, his home, and every photograph from his childhood was both hard and productive. It defined his vision and made him even more determined to document life and educate others through his lens.

Djordje is a recent graduate of the Photography Program at the Seattle Central Community College. So far, his personal projects have focused on exploring a growing homeless population in Seattle area. In 2008 he participated in the Missouri Photo Workshop, which further defined his drive for storytelling. His current project “Graveyard Shift” depicts and explores night shift workers and the impact of shift work on their lives.

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