Pavel Dias
Pavel Dias (1938–2021) was a Czech photographer and university teacher, one of the principal bearers of the legacy of classic humanist photography in the Czech lands. He studied photography at the secondary school of applied arts in Brno under Professor Karel Otto Hrubý. He worked as a documentary photographer and contributed to many magazines. From 1989 he taught at FAMU for twenty years, and from 2005 to 2018 also at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. He photographed from the 1950s onward, focusing on people and major themes, which he developed into extensive documentary cycles. A significant theme of his work was the documentation of sites where concentration camps once stood.