Michal Kalhous: family (talk)
A Saturday talk by Michal Kalhous (head of the Studio of Fine Art Photography at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Ostrava) on the theme of family and his records of a seemingly ordinary, banal life. Šatlava. Kalhous was returning to the Uničov festival — his exhibition Z Rýč, míč, klíč had already been shown at the 1st edition (2011).
About the author
Michal Kalhous (b. 1967, Valašské Meziříčí) is a Czech photographer, educator, and curator. He uses analog techniques and a distinctive visual style based on large-format black-and-white enlargements, often with reduced sharpness and contrast. Since 2006 he has been an associate professor at the Department of Photography of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Ostrava, where he heads the Studio of Creative Photography.