Evzen Sobek
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Czech, born 1967
Projects/Portfolios
Life in Blue
Introduction
What is the motivation for people to spend their time at the lakeside of the reservoir in the southeastern tip of the Czech Republic? Why do they set up their second homes with bizarre architerctural artefacts in this strange environment though the magic of the place dissolves after several visits..
What makes the members of the community or holidaymakers, their husbands and wives, children, relatives, friends, voluntarily spend a weekend or even a year-round stay in this strange emptiness?
Is it the longing for meditation in the country?
Is it the necessity of establishing informal contacts in a romantic environment?
Maybe here they can quench their desire for life in a community which the city can no longer offer.
The answer to these questions could be given by these residents only, but the question is whether they know the answer themselves...?
ClampArt, New York, NY, United States
Life in Blue, Evzen Sobek,Jiri, Patek, Jiri Siostrzonek, Kehrer Publishing, Heidelberg, 2011
Life in Blue - limited edition catalogue, wall paper included, Evzen Sobek, Jiri Siostrzonek, Evzen Sobek, Brno, 2008
Ecce Homo, Evzen Sobek, Vladimir Birgus, Evzen Sobek, Leica Gallery Prague, Brno, 2004
Artist Statement
Good photography shouldn’t say everything, good photography should suggest.
Graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University Opava, Czech Republic. Freelance photographer and photography teacher – lectures and workshops on documentary photography in various universities and schools in the Czech Republic. The focal point of his work is documentary photography. Represented in public and private collections in Europe, USA, Israel and Japan. Presenting his photographs in both solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Participant of Credit Suisse Masterclass for Photojournalists from Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest - New York. Awards: MiO Photo Award, Grand Prix Winner, Japan - M.I.L.K. competition, U.S.A. - Talentinum, Czech Republic, Honorable Montion Lens Culture Award 2010, Paris. Residences: Internationales Haus der Autoren Graz, Cultural City Network Graz, Austria - Stiftung kunst:raum sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany
Books: 2004 - Ecce Homo (introduction by Vladimir Birgus), Leica Gallery Prague, 2008 - Life in Blue (introduction by Jiri Siostrzonek), Brno, 2011 - Life in Blue (introduction by Jiri Patek & Jiri Siostrzonek), Heidelberg, Germany
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