Exhibition: Martin Tůma and Jakub Skokan: Na pasekách nehoří
The joint exhibition Na pasekách nehoří (No Fires in the Clearings) by Martin Tůma and Jakub Skokan was presented at the 1st edition of Fotofestival Uničov (Uničov Photo Festival), themed Mezi (Between). The exhibition took place at ZUŠ Uničov from March 11 to 31, 2011.
About the authors
Jakub Skokan is a Czech photographer and a graduate of the Studio of Advertising Photography at Tomas Bata University (UTB) in Zlín. Together with Martin Tůma he works under the name BoysPlayNice, focusing mainly on photographing contemporary Czech and Slovak architecture. Skokan is also a co-founder of the MIMO association for photography, the founder of Fotomi (Month of Visual Creation), and the curator of the Yellow Submarine gallery in Znojmo.
Source: BoysPlayNice
Martin Tůma (b. 1981, Rožnov pod Radhoštěm) is a Czech photographer. In 2011 he completed his master’s degree at the Studio of Advertising Photography at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications, Tomas Bata University in Zlín. In his independent work he focuses on the motif of landscape and the metaphysics of the photographic medium. He has worked in advertising photography since 2009 and, together with Jakub Skokan, co-founded the studio BoysPlayNice, which specializes in architectural photography. He has received an award at the international photography festival in Zingst, Germany.