About us

DIANA HAJDIN

BEc

"My graduation thesis on motivation and remuneration in hospitality was the result of 12 years of co-managing the La Cantina restaurant, which my family opened 12 years ago. In addition to running the family restaurant, I am also in my second year of the post-graduate program on HR management at the Maribor Faculty of Economics and Business. I am a foodie and a traveler. I share this passion with my partner, so we spend a lot of time on out travels trying traditional, modern and trendy dishes. Food can reveal a lot about a country. This is what inspired the project. It is time we put our environment’s potentials and resources to good use. I believe that working together can get us very far, and that this project could help us build a community open to new challenges."

• +386 41 656 075
• diana@tastingmaribor.com

MAJA KNEZ

BEc

"I am a level 2 sommelier. I come from a wine and fruit growing family, and I developed passion for wine growing and making at a very young age. I also grow and sell walnuts. After graduating, I got a job at the Vinag wine company, where I worked at different positions, as a salesperson in the domestic and foreign markets, sales promoter, retail facilitator in tourism, guide through the cellar, a taster and sommelier. I worked closely with visitors from home and abroad, and learned that Maribor has a lot of potential to become a popular travel destination. Alongside its cultural and historical heritage and tradition, Maribor can also offer abundant local cuisine, a diverse culinary scene, and a lot of knowledge about food and wine. Let’s show foodies what Maribor has to offer!"

• maja@tastingmaribor.com

IGOR UNUK

Curator

“Taste Maribor photographs are selected from the series Soft HDR Maribor, which has been in the making since 2012. They depict the city during different seasons, in different light conditions and moods, inviting locals to compare internally and showcasing city sights using a non-classic perspective for tourists. The basic concept is street photography with the focus on architecture instead of people. It is a locally upgraded – softened and additionally colour-adjusted – HDR style of photography, which depicts the focus object in detail, adding a note of spatial ambiance using colours. As a curator and photographer, I also expand on classic curator activities with activist, photographic, multimedia and internet projects.

The selected photographs are available as prints on premium art paper in three different sizes at www.unuk.si/shop. You can follow the developing photographic story of our city on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/igorunuk/.