Pavel Vančát
Pavel Vančát (b. 1976, Ústí nad Labem) is a Czech photography historian and curator. He studied at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. In 2002 he was among the founders of Fotograf magazine and served on its editorial board for many years. He focuses on Czech photography and visual culture of the second half of the 20th century and on contemporary art photography. He has curated numerous exhibitions of Czech photographers and translated Susan Sontag’s On Photography into Czech.