Photographers & artists from: Czech-Republic

I inherited my first Flexaret from my father when I was about 11 years old. Since then I have eagerly tried out many cameras, from a Ukraine-made “Kiev” to a CANON EOS300 brought over from Germany. I got to a digital camera sometime around 1998. Actually, nearly all of my cameras were stolen from me and paradoxically, that’s how I moved forward. So from Olympus cameras (the last one was an E-1) I got to CANON (30D and 5 D) – and although I have a Nikon FM2 and a Pentax SP1000 at home sitting in their dusty place of honour right next to the television – I now enjoy taking photos with my Canon 1Ds MarkIII. I like to photograph people the most. I try to find new perspectives, new colour adaptations and to place unusual elements within my photographs. With the shots that I have a chance to plan, I try to find at least one extra, different parallel storyline which is only obvious to the careful observer. I’m realizing my dreams. I photographed calendar shoots in asphalt tanks with a group of female and male models, I took photographs from the roofs of high-rise buildings, in water, etc. At the moment I’m shooting a slightly industrially themed calendar at one large paper mill with the national female step-aerobics team, I’m preparing a catalogue and image photograph shoot for a Turkish manufacturer of extravagant ladies’ shoes and for the company Ellements, which we’d like to realize in the Mecca of modern architecture - Berlin. These are the things that are keeping me most busy at the moment and which I’m really looking forward to.

Homepage: yasyas-yasyas.blogspot.com

 

Jiri Ruzek was born on August 29, 1967 and is a glamour and nude art photographer from Prague, Czech Republic. In 1995, he asked his first model for a photo-session. In 2004 he moved to Prague to live and work there. Went on to explore a variety of styles, but is most noted for his black-and-white artistic nude passionate photographs with a slight suggestion of some micro-story. Jiri Ruzek's photographs have been published in various printed or internet magazines and his prints are included in private collections around the world (USA, Mexico, Japan, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Czech Republic etc...).

Homepage: www.jiriruzek.net

 

Photographer Miloš Burkhardt, creating under a pseudonym Burki, was born in the Czech Republic in 1962. Burki specializes in the female nude. He´s been exhibiting extensively and his pictures appear regularly in lifestyle magazines. Recently, he has been focusing on the unique platin printing method. “For me, photography represents a means of expression of my deep respect for the natural beauty of the female body and my admiration for women as such. Nature gave a gift, a monument: a woman´s body which is magnificent and perfect in its natural curves and shapes,“ confesses Burki.

Homepage: www.burki.cz