Photographer, pedagogue, journalist, and curator. Since 1983 he has taught photography at the Vocational-Technical School of Photography Prague. Since 1991 he has lectured at the Institute for Creative Photography at the Philosophical-Natural Sciences Faculty in Opava (since 2002 he has acted as associate professor). He is a member of the Prague House of Photography. He intensely devotes his time to journalistic, curatorial and organisational activities in the field of photography.
He has been taking photographs since 1969. He almost exclusively devotes his time to free creative techniques. At first in the first half of the 1980s he created traditionally-posed, static photos (photographs from Terezín, the Imanence collection). Later in addition to taking pictures he hosted happenings (Campaign / Kampaň, Fist in the Eye / Pěst na oko or events together with the Divus community and publishing house – the Furniture Bazaar on Libeňský Island, the Prague Vysočany Train Station, or the Days of Never Realised Ideas on the Letná Plateau). In homage to the Czech photographic avant-garde he experiments with both negative and positive prints. He creates photo-montages, assemblages, photograms, etc. He presents photos as spatial objects, often in combination with various real objects. Much of his work has the character of a presentation of work in public space – he glued enormous barytic blow-ups on large surfaces of industrial architecture, presentations in second-hand shops, underpasses, harbours, healthcare centres, etc. His exhibits in official galleries also have the character of photographic installations reacting to a chosen topic and concrete space. He also created miniature transparent photographic assemblages from large-form negatives (18x24cm) and small objects.
In recent times he often works with digital images – a sequence of shots or with photo snapshots from his mobile phone.
