One of the most propulsive young Slovenian photographers, Tanja Verlak among others won the 2006 Slovenian Photography competition organised by the EMZIN magazine. The series of featured photos were shot while pursuing her postgraduate art and aesthetics studies in New Delhi and during her subsequent stay in New York. While sojourning in two such dissimilar cultural environments, the artist was impelled to contemplate the representation of culture-induced shock in photography and beyond. In her dissertation she treated the scope of the visual communication as an indexical medium, namely from the early shots of horror to voyeurism and displays of sensational images.