Lucia Sekerková Bláhová
Lucia Sekerková Bláhová (b. 1991) lives and works in Olomouc. She studied advertising photography at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. She became known for her long-term documentary project Vrăjitoare (Romanian for “witches”), in which she photographed witches from the Wallachian Roma community in Romania. The result is the extensive publication “Women Selling Hope,” accompanied by an ethnographic study. Her awards include first place in the Feature Shoot Emerging Photography Awards, and she was a finalist for the New East Photo Prize 2018 in London.