FOTOK | Czech photography over the past decade

Over the past decade photography has become – like almost anywhere else in the world – very popular among young Czech artists and its position has been further strengthening with emerging new digital technologies. Ever more artists, including those about to enter the mid-generation, work with computer software, digital prints, digital cameras and digital video. Thanks to long-term traditional use of the medium in the country a number of experiments succeeded in avoiding meaningless toying with technology and showed clear and quality concept by the artists.

The exhibition of Czech photography over the past decade wishes to present both artists working with classical photography and those embarking on diversified experiments with the medium. They all, however, share a will to attract the viewer with their stories, whether they are told in the form of realistic shots in landscape or in urban environments, staged fantasies through digitally edited and manipulated photographic images.

The concept of the exhibition combines both established and internationally acclaimed artists and new faces in the Czech art scene. Through this approach it wishes to unvail to the viewer the possible trends and tendencies, which have been coming to the forefront in Czech photography over the past decade. Intentionally, the exhibition is void of any thematic umbrella and an idea of one curator. The individual artists and their works will stand in the exposition for themselves.