Vladimir Milivojevich aka Boogie who was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, where he first found his love of photography. Boogie who is a street photographer were he grew up surrounded by cameras which his dad and grandfather were both amateur photographers which he documents photography as he travled all over the world taking photos in dangerous situtations. But during Boogie childhood his country has faced poverty which many families struggled to get payed and find food. In 1997, he and his friend applied for the green-card-lottery for a chance to win a ticket to move to the U.S. and Boogie was lucky enough to win. Since then Boogie has moved to New york were he worked on photographing on the streets of New York City, as well as numerous places around the world which Boogie has photographed life in some of the toughest neighbourhoods on the planet.
As Boogie moved to New York City in 1998, he has published 6 books which most of his photography shots are white and black and were his work has been featured in The New York Times, Time, The Huffigton Post, Huck, And shown on HBO ( for the show How To Make It In America). One of his book “Its all good” his first monograph, published in 2006, were the book feature photos of members of the Latin Kings and other gangs, as well as drug dealers, drug users, and marginalized people stuck in destitution. Boogie has also shot commercial work for clients like Nike, Puma, Lee jeans and Element skateboards. He was featured in the street photography film, Everybody Street. His work has appeared in numerous publications, from The New York Times to even Playboy.
What makes his work unique is that most of his photographs include where he is dangerous situatuions where most of photograph focus on lives torn apart were people do hard drugs, street violence, gang violence, And memebers such as Latin Kings and other gangs were guns are shown off in most of his photography. But Boogie never felt in danger as he took those shots as he states “He never felt like i was risking my life but then looking back, I realized I had several times… I don’t really think there are any photographs worth risking your life for”. He is not photographing just people in the streets, he protographs posters, billboards, anything that catches his attention. Boogie passion has become a career.
