About
I am an amateur photographer who was born, lives and works in the northeastern part of the Czech Republic, in Ostrava. I first looked into the viewfinder of my dad's Flexaret as a little kid. Later, I spent long hours with him in the darkroom, where I gradually learned to develop black and white film and make enlargements from it.
In my youth I was literally fascinated by the work of many great photographers, but especially by the work of Josef Sudek. Photography gradually became for me a window opening onto that wonderful world brimming with harmony and beauty, a tool that allowed me to capture that unique and inimitable magic of the moment. I have devoted myself mostly to subjective documentary, photographing found still life and landscape.
However, during my life, under the influence of certain circumstances, I "definitely quit" photography several times, but after a while, fortunately, I always humbly returned to it. In 2016, after one such hiatus, during which I lost, among other things, all my earlier work, I decided to pick up the camera again and start, as they say, from scratch.
Five years later, on my second and last attempt to become a professional photographer, and on my second and last attempt to study at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava, I realized that what I value most of all is complete creative freedom. Today I am really happy to be an amateur.
I love those moments when I forget myself and blend in with everything. I open my eyes wide and humbly step back. And then I try to capture the beauty I find.
Solo exhibitions
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iPhonegrafia /2018 - 2020/, "Kamrlík fotografie", Ostrava (CZ), 2020 - 2021
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Reflection and Near the Sky, Gallery Under the Stars, Ostrava (CZ), 2019
Group exhibitions
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Euroraport PhotoProject: The First Day in European Union, Warszaw & Łódź (PL), 2004
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150 years of photography, PKOJF, Prague (CZ), 1989
Representation in private collections
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MSS Company, Ostrava (CZ)
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TEMAX tech Company, Uherský Brod (CZ)
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Pension "U Hraběnky", Petrovice (CZ)
Photobooks
Catalogues
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Euroraport PhotoProject: The First Day in European Union, 2004
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150 years of photography, 1989
Media
Awards
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The 32nd International Artavita Online Art Contest, Certificate of Excellence, Artavita, Santa Barbara (US), 2019
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Euroraport PhotoProject: The First Day in European Union, selection of the jury, Foundation of Visual Education (PL) & Nikon Polska Ltd., 2004
Agencies & Clients
Kenshō
Kenshō (見性) literally "seeing the nature", is an experience described in the context of Zen Buddhism. The term is often used to denote an initial awakening experience, seeing one's True-Nature or Buddha-Nature, that can be enlarged and clarified through further practice in daily life.
In Kenshō, one experiences the illusionary nature of the separate self ("I"). Because of the nature of the mind, any perception seems to involve a perceived object, the process of perception, and a perceiving subject. For example, 'I see you': I – the subject (which appears to be separate from the perceived objects), see – the process of perception, you (or it) – the object.
One method is known as: 'Who am I', since it is this question that guides the enquiry into one's true nature. The realization that there is no 'I' that is doing the thinking, but rather that the thinking process brings forth the illusion of an 'I', is a step on the way to Kenshō.
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