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‹ Photo Notes · 15 ledna, 2012
On Thursday 23 September 2010 the exhibition Jiří Růžek – IN THE MOONLIGHT OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS (V LÚNĚ STŘEDOHOŘÍ) was opened at the Na Bašté photo gallery in Litoměřice. With the help of photographs and a few words I will try to describe the course of the day and the feelings from this event.
23 September 2010
02:00 – by night tram, together with the photographer Lída Foblová and the model Viktoria, we return from the opening of Tereza Jirásková’s exhibition
08:15 – alarm clock with a slight hangover
11:00 – a not very successful attempt to dry freshly washed and still damp clothes with a hot iron
12:00 – packing the photographs and checking everything that was supposed to be ready yesterday and mustn’t be forgotten
13:30 – departure from Prague
14:30 – arrival in Litoměřice, at Na Bašta meeting the first four members of the photo club Porta, start of the exhibition installation
16:00 – arrival of my son JR, jr.
17:30 – installation finished and a moment for a break
17:35 – my Nikon (and Lída’s lens of the same brand) falls hard onto the paving – it works flawlessly, a cosmetic souvenir remains on the body of the lens
17:45 – a car full of friends sets out from Prague, which was originally to leave at 17:00
18:00 – another car of friends reports an unpleasant traffic jam halfway along the motorway between Prague and Litoměřice
18:15 – the second car reports the same
18:20 – the first guests gather
18:30 – the first car from Prague arrived
18:45 – the opening begins with a short speech by Fanda Diviš (Photo club Porta); during the short discussion more guests gather
19:00 – Miroslav Zimmer screws on a microphone and prepares an interview for Czech Radio, the second car from Prague arrives
19:10 – MZ takes a photo for the radio (a bit of a Cimrman-style situation 🙂
19:15 – free entertainment
21:00 – very free entertainment
22:00 – completely relaxed entertainment
23:00 – settling the bar tab and saying goodbye to the last guests and club members
24:00 – return to Prague
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The whole afternoon and evening went without a single problem. The environment of the Bašta is fantastic, and framing and hanging the photographs with the help of the members of the Porta photo club went smoothly. I rarely get to Litoměřice these days, so I was all the more pleased by the attendance of many of my friends, mostly photographers and musicians. Among the guests were my family, the mayor of Litoměřice and once my long-time bandmate Ladislav Chlupáč, my first photography teacher Miroslav Hvorka, the director and one of the cornerstones of Czech rock’n’roll Vladimír Polák, Miroslav Zimmer, Radim Tuček, Richard Špitt and others (mostly with wives or partners); from Prague came, for the photographers, Ludmila Foblová and Ján Hronský, for the models Viktoria Dmitrieva with Roman, and for the other friends Juraj Zverko with Alenka.
Once again I thank everyone involved for their help and support. And the rest of you, who didn’t make it to the opening, I warmly invite to visit the exhibition IN THE MOONLIGHT OF THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, which is on right now.
