Exhibition: Foto kino video
The group exhibition Foto kino video, featuring Ivars Gravlejs, Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák, Petr Marek, the Record project, and Branislav Štěpánek, was presented at the 1st edition of Fotofestival Uničov, themed Mezi (Between). The exhibition took place in the cinema as part of Mladá kamera, a showcase of amateur and student film, from March 11 to 31, 2011.
About the authors
Branislav Štěpánek (b. 1974, Bratislava) is a Slovak photographer, curator, and writer. He studied at the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. He works in photography, photography theory, curating, and publishing. He previously served as curator of the Mesiac fotografie (Month of Photography) festival in Bratislava and as editor-in-chief of the magazine Fotonoviny. In his artistic practice he is known for exploring unconventional approaches to the creative process, drawing on ideas from the photographic tradition while playing with its visual clichés.
Ivars Grāvlejs (b. 1979, Riga) is a Latvian photographer and visual artist. He completed his master’s degree at the Department of Photography at FAMU and his doctorate at AVU in Prague. He heads the Photography Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. His provocative multimedia work is marked by social critique and an ironic outlook, drawing on Dadaism and the German conceptualism of the 1970s and 1980s. He has exhibited at venues including Tate Modern in London and the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
Source: https://www.kogogallery.ee/en/artists/ivars-gravlejs/
Lukáš Jasanský (b. 1965, Prague) is a Czech conceptual photographer who has worked in an artistic tandem with Martin Polák since the 1980s. Both studied photography at FAMU. Their main medium is black-and-white photography, and they create photographic cycles that loosely adopt documentary functions while deliberately ignoring the methods and values of typical photographic practice. They are among the most highly regarded Czech contemporary photographers.
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Martin Polák (b. 1966, Prague) is a Czech conceptual photographer who has worked in an artistic tandem with Lukáš Jasanský since the 1980s. Both studied photography at FAMU. Their main medium is black-and-white photography—they create photographic cycles that deliberately blur the boundaries between reality and illusion. In 2013 they placed second in the Photographer of the Year category at Czech Grand Design.
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Petr Marek took part in the UFF/FFU festival.