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‹ Photo Notes · 2 prosince, 2017
Experience the world of X-Photographers first-hand!
Come to a group exhibition presenting a total of 27 photographers from around the world, prepared by FUJIFILM.
X-Photographers are the world photographic elite working with FUJIFILM X series cameras, limited neither to particular themes nor to ways of working. It is precisely this diversity that will play an important role at the exhibition. The photographers‘ range of subjects is wide, so the exhibition will be divided by colour into 9 sections presenting 9 themes.
The backbone of the exhibition is formed by 9 Czech X-Photographers, each representing one theme, complemented by 18 world X-Photographers bringing other approaches and ways of working. The exhibition will thus confront Czech photography with the world’s in the unique premises of the Czech Photo Centre.
The X-Photographers exhibition brings to the Czech Republic the unique work of world photographers, artists and adventurers who are also holders of prestigious awards such as World Press Photo, Sony World Photography, International Photography of the Year or Czech Press Photo. Their photographs are also often published in renowned publications such as TIME magazine, The New York Times, the Guardian and others.
You will also meet the exhibiting photographers as lecturers at the many talks and practical workshops planned as part of the exhibition.
The exhibition will run at the Czech Photo Centre from 7 December 2017 to 14 January 2018.
Photographers represented, by theme
DOCUMENTARY
Radek Kalhous (CZ)
A photojournalist for the daily press of Mafra a.s. with more than twenty years of experience, in his personal work he focuses on diverse projects, some of which he has been working on continuously for several years. Radek likes to experiment and chooses projects across themes that interest him. They often have a social reach and rather artistic treatment. Despite the variety of projects, however, he always seeks not only visual value but also a certain subtext that arouses the viewer’s interest to the point that they remember the photograph. His work is often published in magazines and he is the winner of several prestigious Czech Press Photo awards and a finalist of the Sony World Photography Awards.
Adam Ferguson (Australia)
A native Australian from the New South Wales region, he studied photography at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, and in 2009 received his first recognition for a series of photographs from the war in Afghanistan, which was honoured by the prestigious competitions World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International and Photo District News. Since then he has worked in Iraq, India, Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Nepal, Burma, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Great Britain and in his homeland Australia. He currently lives in New York and is working on two monographs: a diary from Afghanistan and a critique of contemporary regional Australian identity.
Tomasz Lazar (Poland)
An independent documentary photographer capturing moments that are happening around us right now. He works on long-term projects focusing on society and the human mind and on how technology and culture influence people. For his personal work Tomasz has received a number of awards, including World Press Photo, the Sony World Photography Award and Grand Press Photo. His projects are often published by world media such as The New York Times or the Sunday Times Magazine.
STREET
David Gaberle (CZ)
A young talented street photographer who has travelled through several world metropolises in order to publish his first book this year, Metropolight, which became successful thanks to a crowdfunding campaign and sold to 45 countries of the world. David has the support of renowned world photographers, who predict a bright future for him. A trained anthropologist from the London College of Arts, in his photographs he records the atmosphere of big cities with an interest in the psychological relationship between city and human. He perceives photography itself as therapy and it helps him grow personally.
José Jeuland (Singapore)
A French professional photographer, athlete and traveller who settled in Singapore, from where he sets out on his journeys around the world to document various ways of life that reflect the diversity of cultures and wild nature. His photography tells intricate stories written in the form of a photographic diary that shows fleeting moments of everyday life. José is currently preparing his first solo exhibition in Singapore.
Jonas Dyhr Rask (Denmark)
A trained general practitioner who has been around photography since childhood thanks to his father, a wedding photographer. His photographic inspiration comes from the interaction between a person and their surroundings. Jonas’s street photography signature looks for elements of human isolation in contrast with the cold material of the big city. With street photography he documents the true life of Danish streets as it is, without any intervention.
ARCHITECTURE
Jiří Šebek (CZ)
A freelance architectural photographer who worked his way up from nothing. Jiří started shooting in 2004 without any photographic education. Gradually he tried various photographic themes until he became a respected architectural photographer. Besides his personal work, Jiří leads photography workshops and shoots for architectural and design studios. In the 2016 edition of Czech Press Photo he won the Grant of Prague award for his series „Temples of the New Era“.
Elia Locardi (USA)
An internationally recognized professional travel photographer, videographer, Fujifilm ambassador, traveller, writer and lecturer who devotes his whole life to photographing the most beautiful places in the world. Since 2009 he has travelled to more than 55 countries. Elia has built a distinctive and widely recognizable signature of his own. Thanks to his open approach to his audience, he has become one of the most followed photographers in the world on his social media profiles.
Samuel Zeller (Switzerland)
A young talented graphic and interior designer with a passion for photography, to which he has been devoting himself fully since last year. He finds inspiration for his projects in architecture and visual art. Into his photographic projects he brings his own view and clean style, and his photographs are often more art than anything else.
LANDSCAPE
Jakub Cejpek (CZ)
He devotes himself not only to reportage, sports and mountain photography, he is also editor-in-chief of Everest magazine. Jakub’s life revolves around the mountains, which he loves above all. He has travelled a good part of the world; there is hardly a month he is not in the Alps, and he always takes a camera with him. Twice already he could not resist the lure of New Zealand, in Nepal he walked snow-covered passes where nobody had gone for a few years, he stood on the highest peaks of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, and on the Argentinian volcano Ojos del Salado he savoured the thin air at almost 7,000 metres.
Saulius Damulevičius (Lithuania)
A business consultant, high-altitude climber and photographer with adrenaline in his veins. He climbed Virgin Peaks in China, skied down a 7,500 m mountain and was awarded the Snow Leopard title for conquering the five highest mountains of Central Asia (all above 7,000 m). Saulius continues his journey towards the 8,000-metre peaks, taking his camera further into the „death zone“ to document the extreme living environment and the innate human desire to explore the unknown.
Spencer Wynn (Canada)
He has a deep connection with the wild and rugged landscape of Canada in every season. Spencer approaches landscape photography with the eye of an artist. Balance, form, story and above all light are the themes that distinguish his personal signature. Whether he is shooting at night at -45°C or hiding in a cave from the heat, he always keeps his approach in order to capture the unique scenes of the landscape he happens to be in.
NATURE
Michal Krause (CZ)
A nature photographer, lecturer and freelance writer. He has combined his love of nature with his passion for photography in all its forms and now devotes himself to photographing animals, which he travels after across four continents. Michal’s photographs of reindeer from a trip to Svalbard won the Trigema award as part of Czech Press Photo 2015. He runs individual photography courses, publishes actively, issues a photography newsletter and is the author of successful articles and e-books about photo processing.
Peter Delaney (South Africa)
A wildlife and landscape photographer from South Africa. He has spent years in the African wilderness in order to show the rich diversity of nature and its magnificent landscape. He tries to bring a unique style into his photographs that would inspire the viewer and awaken a passion for preserving life and the environment on our planet. Peter’s photographs have been published in National Geographic and he has won several awards, including Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Simone Sbaraglia (Italy)
He captures the beauty, harmony and uniqueness of our planet in the hope that it will be preserved for future generations. Simone is often on the road to photograph nature and its stories all over the world. His work focuses on endangered species and ecosystems. He is one of the few photographers who builds respect with animals and can therefore approach them much closer.
GLAMOUR, PORTRAIT
Jiří Růžek (CZ)
He is among the leading contemporary Czech photographers of artistic nude. His work is represented in many books from world publishers; as one of few Czech authors he is also published by Taschen. For him photography is a dialogue between photographer and model; he builds his work on simplicity and believability, accepts the environment as it is, shoots without makeup artists and assistants, lights almost exclusively with one light or uses any light source at hand, and approaches retouching only exceptionally. He calls his style uglamour and explains it as natural glamour.
Ines Thomsen (Austria)
She looks for unique, never-seen and spectacular photography for her clients in advertising, fashion and fine arts. Her main motif is the positive energy connecting Ines with her subjects, which gives every photograph a beauty seen from within. Everything has its charm, but not everyone sees it.
Damien Lovegrove (Great Britain)
He started as a cameraman for the BBC and worked his way up to professional wedding photographer and later portrait photographer. Now he concentrates on conceptual travel photography and the figure in the landscape. Damien is considered one of the most influential contemporary portrait photographers. His style of lighting photographs and his uplifting compositions are legendary.
FASHION
Petr Kozlík (CZ)
He studied medicine, but his passion for photography won. Everything he knows about photography he learned from books. He focuses on fashion photography and now works for the biggest Czech publisher Mafra while also shooting campaigns for well-known brands in the fashion industry. You can see his photographs in magazines such as Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Book magazine and others. Petr often photographs well-known models, actors and personalities of the Czech art scene.
Kara Mercer (USA)
A commercial and fashion photographer from Seattle. She specializes in creating content for fashion, travel and lifestyle brands. Her work is influenced by minimalism with elements of provocativeness and emotive, ethereal touches of romanticism. With these elements Kara combines playful stories with timeless aesthetics for commercial campaigns and editorials.
Joao Carlos (Portugal)
A Lisbon photographer born in New York who focuses on fashion and commercial photography. Joao sees his photography as an opportunity to create inspiring works of art reaching beyond the conventionality and transience of fashion and commercial photography. Into his photographs he adds an element of fine art that lasts forever. He approaches every shoot as a painter conveying emotion through visionary stories, rich sets and the use of natural light.
MUSIC/DANCE
Jiří Štarha (CZ)
He devotes himself mainly to reportage photography focused on the world of music, events and streets. Jiří is himself an active musician, so concert photography is very close to him. He can judge and read musicians well and capture them at the right moment. Into his photographs he puts emphasis on emotion and the interplay of bandmates, all from unconventional angles of view.
George Wong (Hong Kong)
A recognized flautist who performs at various events and also teaches flute himself. George is also a professional photographer focused on classical music concerts. He can capture dynamic and compelling expressions of musicians on stage thanks also to his thirty years of experience in the arts and performance.
Omar Z Robles (USA)
A New York photographer who concentrates on photographing ballet dancers in the streets of New York. He transforms the aesthetics of street photography by letting dancers drift into an empty street, where they receive all the attention. Omar’s dancers tell stories, and the result of this project is an army of miniature stories expressed through the movements of the dancers‘ graceful bodies. Omar’s inspiration comes from the famous French mime Marceau, who taught him in Paris to express emotions and stories through movement.
WEDDING
Vojta Hurych (CZ)
He devotes himself above all to wedding photography, in which he tries to avoid „kitsch“ and instead tell a story through photographs. When capturing the wedding events he puts great emphasis on reportage style and naturalness. He long ago stopped hanging dresses on trees for a photo, and he doesn’t shoot rings either. He would rather always run to where people are laughing, because in his view wedding photography should be full of emotion rather than a stilted product catalogue. Besides shooting weddings he also devotes himself to his own work, for which he has won several awards in the prestigious CZECH PRESS PHOTO competition.
Kevin Mullins (Great Britain)
A reportage wedding photographer who documents the wedding from the guests‘ point of view. He lets events flow naturally and doesn’t rush into staged poses. His reportage style of shooting brings real moments back to life in his photographs. Kevin is one of the first X-Photographers from Great Britain and is also recognized as an excellent speaker at conferences around the world.
Nordica Photography (Sweden)
The photographer duo Cole & Jakob do so-called destination weddings. Their collaboration was born in 2009 from an experiment in Vancouver, and since then their adventure began: they travel the whole world, tell stories and make others happy through their work as wedding photographers. Cole & Jakob live in Sweden, from where they travel to their clients. They have shot weddings on every continent of the world, including Antarctica.