Photographer and Visual Story Teller based in Prague.
EDUCATION
2022–2025 Ph.D. in progres, Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art University of West Bohemia
1982 M.A. FAMU–Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague / Department of Photography
1972 Higher Professional and Secondary Technical School of Graphics, Prague Department of Photography
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2022–present Head of the Photography Department Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art University of West Bohemia
2015–2022 Academic assistant Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art University of West Bohemia
1992–2014 Head of the Photography Department Higher Professional and Secondary Technical School of Graphics, Prague
AWARDS
2021 “Chevalier de L’ordre des arts et des lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture
2021 nomination for Czech Grand Design for the visual campaign for the National Theater, Prague
2019 shortlisted “2019 PhotoBook Awards, Aperture and Paris Photo” for the book Evokativ
2019 nomination for Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize for exhibition Evokativ
2019 “Photographer of the Year 2019” Association of Profesional Photographers, Prague
2019 “The book of the year 2019“ Association of Profesional Photographers, Prague
2017 “Photographer of the Year 2017” Association of Profesional Photographers, Prague
2017 Vienna Photo Book Festival 2.place for the dummy Černé roky (The Black Years)
BOOKS
2024 – T-CLUB by un-titled.org
2022 – Supersonico by un-titled.org
2019 – EVOKATIV by un-titled.org
2017 – Černé roky (The Black Years) by nakladatelství wo-men
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (2008–2024)
2024 Galerie Valchařská, Brno | Supersonico
2023 Galerie Kupé, Opava | Jdu nocí
2022 PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid | T club
2022 FotoFest Participating Spaces, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston |The Photographer as Dissident
2022 Risa Efau , Motoren Halle, Dresden | Hol mich ab wenn du nach Hause gehts
2021 Dům umění České Budějovice | Ach
2021 Uhelný Mlýn, Libčice | Jako když tygr spí
2019 Les Rencontres d’Arles, Église Sainte-Anne | Evokativ
2018 EMOP Berlin, Czech Centre Berlin | Schwarze Jahre
2018 Galerie Fotografic, Prague | Kimochi: Postele a pokoje
2018 Brussels, Prague House | Always Astonished
2017 Ostrava Photo | It keeps pouring, I’ll keep sleeping
2017 Sol Mednick Gallery Philadelphia | Trans_fusion 2
2015 Czech Centre, New York | Trans_fusion 1
2015 Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava | Demiurgs – Preview
2014 Muzeum a Pojizerská Galerie, Semily | Life
2014 Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Praha | Ziellos
2013 Month of photography Bratislava | Different Language
2012 Galerie 1.patro, Prague | Anamnesis
2008 Galerie 5.patro, Prague | Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (2000–2023)
2023 Galerie Emila Filly, Ústí nad Labem | Surreall
2023 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s
2023 Kunsthalle Prague Bohemia | History of an Idea 1950–2000 curator Russel Fergusson
2023 Between Bridges, Berlin | One Day these Kids, with Karol Radziszewski
2020 Ujazdowski Castle Center, Warsaw | The Power of Secrets
2013 GHMP Městská knihovna, Praha | Inner Circle In Contemporary Czech Photography
2008 Galerie Langhans, Praha | Them & At Night
2000 Galerie Esther Woerderhoff, Paris | The Photography For The Children
MENTIONS
“The Evocative Years”, Alistair O’Neill, Aperture 239, 64–71, 2020
“The 2019 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist”,Aperture, 2019
“Top 10 photography shows of 2019”,The Guardian, 2019
“Their Bodies Were Weapons: Dissident Photographers of the 1980s”,New York Times, 2019
“Libuse Jarcovjakova, journal intime d’une Tchécoslovaque opprimée”,Le Monde, 2019