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Education: Graphic School in Prague /printing technologies branch/. Experiences: a photojournalist at the different Czech newspapers and magazines.
I take photographs using old alternative technologies such as cyanotype or vandyke /Van Dyke brown/, classical black and white and digital techniques. I work also with an experimental possibilities in photography. My work does not need to your life back story from the outside, finds itself between order and chance, which penetrate into the finished work in accordance with its rules and creates its own emotional reality. Photograph are based on the idea that our vision is measured at the expense of the prevailing spirit and sense. Often emphasize the aesthetics and questioned its excessive influence on the formation, instead of concentrating on the substance. I do this by transforming own experiences in space to another format. My photographs are not about the another world, they are about our places in this world and time. I make work in a number a different ways, all of which are gradually evolving.
My work is more creative process and aesthetic beauty of the finished print and less about original subject in the space. A novelty in my alternative or digital prints is using a negative inversion for a more marked expression character the trivial objects and environment. Recent works are made without using a camera. I work with photographic paper directly, subjecting it to a range chemical forces. Using a chemical solutions or raw chemicals I create photographic print that is a direct record of physical interaction with the used paper.
"Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality" - Henry Moore.
Selected exhibitions in the UK: 2005 London; The Truman Brewery /a part of London Photomonth/@@@ 2006 London; The Truman Brewery /a part of London Photomonth/@@@ 2007 London; Crouch End Open Studios /Art Experience Gallery/@ Crouch End Open Studios /RA School Gallery; together with Crouch End artists/@ Mile End /Art Pavilion;a part of London Photomonth/@ Southwark /Cafe Gallery; Christmas Fair/@@@ 2008 London; Crouch End Open Studios@ Chelsea /Untitled Artists Fair/ @ Royal Academy Summer Exhibition@ Canterbury; Canterbury Art Fair /The University for the Creative Arts/@ Bristol; Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition@@@ 2009 London; Crouch End Open Studios@@@ 2010 Bristol; Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition@@@
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