What's new?
29th September 2024:
My solo exhibition of photographs, entitled UPLIFTING, at the Chotěšov abbay. has been finished on Sunday 29th September.
20th September 2024:
My photo The Owl Castle Staircase won the second prize in the final round of the prestigious International Photography Awards (IPA) 2024 contest in the Architecture/Interior category, which is my biggest competition photographic achievement so far.
15th September 2024:
A large group exhibition of the Czech Federation of Photographic Art was opened in the Ambit Gallery of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Snows. The very diverse exhibition collection consists of about 100 photographs in 80x60 cm format by 27 artists, including seven my photos. The exhibition is open every day from 12 noon to 6 pm until October 12.
6th September 2024:
My picture The Heart of the Setting Sun has made it to the final round of judging for the prestigious International Photography Awards (IPA), winning the IPA Official Selection 2024 award.
20th August 2024:
I was very pleased to learn that the collection of ten photographs I selected for this year's prestigious Prix de la photographie Paris (Px3) competition has resulted in two bronze awards and six honorable mentions from the international jury.
19th July 2024:
My tenth solo exhibition of photographs, this time entitled UPLIFTING, was opened at the Chotěšov monastery. The exhibition will run until 29 September and the latest details can be found on the special information page (in Czech only).
15th July 2024:
The exhibition collection (so far a wider selection of 30 photographs) for the exhibition in the Chotěšov monastery has already been transported to Chotěšov, where the installation will take place on 16-18 July, so that everything will be ready for the opening on Friday 19 July at 17:00. The opening will include a performance by part of the Gutta historical music ensemble and a small guided tour of the exhibition with its author.
3rd July 2024
From 28 June to 27 July, Independent & Image Art Space gallery in Jinshan Yiku Cultural and Creative Industrial Park in Chongqing, China, has been hosting the international exhibition Abstraction in Photography. Photos of 24 photographers from around the world have been selected for the exhibition, and the organiser's website presents additional images from the photo collections that the selected photographers have sent to China for the occasion.
2nd June 2024
Some of the six photographs I submitted to the competition in Chongqing, China, will be part of the Abstraction in Photography exhibition in this city. You can read the details on my blog in my article A peek into China's Yangtze River (only in Czech).
26th March 2024:
I became a member of the Czech Federation of Photographic Art..
11th February 2024:
In the e-Xposition section I have published the selection of the TOP 45 photos from the year 2023.
3rd February 2024:
The international curated photoexhibition ABSTRACT consisting of 90 photos (from 27 countries) including my picture The Heart of the Setting Sun was opened in The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (271-281 High Street, Glasgow). The exhibition will be open until 29th February. The exhibited photographs can also be viewed in the online version: ABSTRACT - on-line
6th January 2024:
The new year has started well, as three of my photographs have won Honorable Mentions in the highly respected global competition Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) 2023. I´ve added all the Tokyo award winning photos into the detailed list in the Awards section.
17th December 2023:
All my 10 photos submitted to the New York Photography Awards came back awarded: 4 of them won Silver Winner Award, the remaining 6 photos won Honorable Mentions. I´ve added all the New York award winning photos into the detailed list in the Awards section.
28th November 2023:
I have agreed with the organizers of my summer photoexhibition in the Chotěšov Monastery that I will be able to use a larger exhibition hall for it than originally agreed. According to the preliminary plans, the exhibition should start on 21 July 2024 and should last until the end of September.
19th November 2023:
In this year's edition of one of the world's largest and most respected photography competitions, the ND Awards 2023, my photographs won four Honorable Mentions in the Architecture and Nature categories. I have featured all of the award-winning photos in the ND Awards 2023 Photo Contest blog post and added them to the detailed list in the Awards section.
22nd October 2023:
I learned my photograph, The Heart of the Setting Sun, will be a part of the curated ABSTRACT exhibition at the Glasgow Gallery of Photography from February 3 to February 29, 2024.
21st September 2023:
My photo Return from a trip to the Black and White World received the Honorable Mention in one of the world's most respected photo competition International Photography Awards (IPA) 2023. You can find more information about my award-winning photos in the Awards section.
18th September 2023:
I wrote a special article on my blog pages about the extraordinary Prague exhibition of the photographer Alžběta Jungrová - "I Believe" (the blog articles are in Czech).
8th September 2023:
I have started a new page on this website called What's New? :-) On this page I will mention the main news about the content of my photoweb, about various events with a link to me as a photographer or a lover of photos, and about my future photo plans.
7th September 2023:
I removed the French version of the website, which had minimal traffic and was quite time-consuming for me to maintain. Please let me know if you would miss it.
1st September 2023:
My photograph From Josef Sudek's Window has received an honorable mention in the Minimalist Photography Awards 2023 and is now included in the list of my successful photographs in the Awards section.
22nd August 2023:
My photoseries River Variations won a bronze award in the international competition Prix de la photographie Paris (Px3) 2023. Three other individual photographs received honorable mentions in the contest. All related information can be found in the Awards section.
5th July 2023:
I have agreed to hold my next solo exhibition in the beautiful baroque complex of the Chotěšov Monastery in the Pilsen region. The exhibition should open in mid-July 2024 and last until the end of September. I will gradually update this very basic information.