Nika forever

When Slavica Perkovic began photographing the six-year-old Nika, she knew a long-term collaboration had begun. Perkovic has previously made two small artist’s books of Nika as a child, and the present book explores Nika’s life from the age of six to eighteen. Nika Forever is a visual lecture of a child coming of age, intimate yet not voyeuristic, and coloured by Perkovic’s own reminiscences of childhood. Slavica Perkovic was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and studied art history and experimental cinema at the École de Louvre and the University of Paris VIII. Perkovic has exhibited internationally and her work is held in such institutions as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Fotomuseum Winterthur. Her books include Stories of Desire and Power (1995) and Betty, Kim, Irena, Slavica (2001).