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Vojtěch Veškrna is a Prague-based photographer & artist renowned for his work in documentary, portrait, and editorial photography. He holds BA in advertising photography from Thomas Bata University in Zlin and MA in documentary photography from Film and Tv School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He then spent three years working with the documentary team Sputnik Photos in Warsaw and assisting to artist and Magnum Photos member Rafal Milach. Throughout his career, his photographs have appeared in Die Zeit, Cosmopolitan, Esquire or Harper’s Bazaar, alongside his work with artists, architects, designers, and various commercial brands.

Vojtěch Veškrna’s work has received recognition through multiple awards. In 2021 he was honored with the Czech Grand Design Photographer of the Year award. His photobook “My Air Force” was named the Best East European Photobook in 2016, shortlisted for The Anamorphosis Prize and is featured in the permanent library collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. In 2013, Veškrna won the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Photo Award. His work has been showcased in several group and solo exhibitions including Centre de photographie in Rouen, France, Hackney WickED festival in London, UK, or the “Riga Photomonth – Self Publish Riga” festival in Riga, Latvia.

Here are some thoughts about Vojtech by Federico Clavarino on Der Greif Online

“When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. So poetry becomes a philosophy to guide a man throughout his life.”

Andrei Tarkovsky

bio (long version):

Thomas Bata University in Zlin – photography (.BcA)
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice – Visual communication
Film and Tv School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – photography (.MgA)
Academy of Fine Arts in Prague – graphic design and new media – atelier 304 / Petr Babák /

Education (other)
2016 The International Summer School of Photography (ISSP)
Anouk Kruithof masterclass (Pelci/Latvia)
2015 Film Spring Open – documentary workshop (Krakow/Poland)
2014 The Rodina book design workshop (Warsaw/Poland)
2012 Deepthroat and The Rodina graphic design workshop (Brno/Czech Republic)

Awards

2021 Czech Grand Design – Photographer of the Year
2016 My Air Force chosen by Jana Romanova as The Best East European Photobook in 2016 (for FK Magazine)
2016 Self Publish Riga – First Award (My Air Force book/selfpublishriga.com)
2016 My Air Force book shortlisted for The Anamorphosis Prize
2016 My Air Force book chosen as the Book of the Week on Photo Eye blog
2013 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Photo Award – Winner

Residence
2013 Tonlab (Prague/Czech Republic)

Exhibitions (group)

2020 Magma: Documentation of performance by artist Matyáš Chochola (Prague/Czech Republic)
2018 A tire-d’aile: Figures de l’envol (Rouen – Normandie/France)
2017 Projektil 33 (Prague/Czech Republic)
2017 Riga Photomonth – Self Publish Riga (Riga/Latvia)
2017 Hackney WickED Festival (London/UK)
2017 Part of the book GR-02092017 by Silja Leifsdottir (Norway/Oslo)
2017 Krakow Photomonth (Krakow/Poland)
2016 ISSP final exhibition (Kuldiga/Latvia)
2015 FAMU — MgA. (Prague/Czech Republic)
2014 Two faces of Prague (Prague/Czech Republic)
2013 CEZká Republika (Boskovice/Czech Republic)
2012 Borders of shadow (Valeč/Czech Republic)
Czechoslovak Trophies (Barcelona/Spain)
Czechoslovak Trophies (Prague/Czech Republic)
2011 New Estethic (Zlín/Czech Republic)
Weightlessness (Prague/Czech Republic)
2010 Welten am Fluss / Süd (Recklinghausen/Germany)

Exhibitions (solo)
2016 My Air Force (Brno/Czech Republic)

Exhibitions (curating)
2015 Sputnik Photos – Is (NOT) (Brno/Czech Republic)

Talks

2020 Scholastika
2016 ISSP Evening Programme
2015 26th Brno Biennial
F! Festival

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