Antonin Kratochvil is an independent photographer. He studied under Geritt Rieveld at the Academy of Fine Arts in Holand. In 1972 he became a member of the Photographers Association BFA. Antonin Kratocvil’s works are internationally recognized and are often to be seen in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times and in magazines [...]
Jiri Turek was born in Prague in 1965. His professional career in photography started at MF Dnes in 1990. Parallel to his photojournalism career, he documented foreign visits of the Czech President Vaclav Havel. He also covered war conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Georgia and former Soviet satellites. Later, he focused on the genre of portrait [...]
Jindrich Streit was born on September 5th 1946 in Vsetin na Vlassku (Moravia). In 1956 he moved with his parents to the foothills of Jesenik (Techanov). He attended Gymnasium (Grammar School) in Rymarov (1963) and Pedagogic College at Palacky University, majoring in art education. He has been married to his wife Agnes since 1971 and [...]
Jan Pohribny was born in Prague on February 8th 1961. He has been photographing since 1969 and from his beginnings he was influenced mainly by his parents (mother was illustrator, father was art theoretician). He studied photography at Graphic Industrial High School in Prague (1980) and Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing [...]
Evzen Sobek has a firm place in the spectrum of Czech documentary photography. In his freshmen years at the Institute of Creative Photography at Silesia University he attracted attention with his sensitive documentary about the life of monks from Premonstratensian monastery in Zeliva. He expressed himself as one of the most outstanding participants of the [...]