A small travelling festival that has been projecting great photos on screens in Czech cinemas, clubs and cafés since 2007.
An evening of screenings of some of the best world and Czech creative and documentary photography has to offer, balancing somewhere between lecture, standup comedy, improvised embarrassment and solving sudden technical problems.
Fotojatka is for everyone with even a passing interest in art. You certainly don't have to be a photographer or a regular gallery-goer to appreciate the photographs you'll see at the festival.
We screen what an art historian will appreciate, but what your auntie will understand as well (even if she is not an art historian).
We show portraits, conceptual photography, documentaries and humour – but each time from a different perspective than you're used to.
Since 2017, the festival has been held entirely without money, grants, or sponsors. The authors and organizers have waived their fees, and what you pay for admission will go to Doctors Without Borders and People in Need after covering the costs of the cinema operators.
What can you look forward to?
The 14th annual festival of creative photography will screen a breathtaking series of black-and-white photographs by Trent Parke (NZ), an artist who has influenced thousands of photographers, and self-nudes by Viki Kollerová (SK), in which the human body literally merges with nature. The frightening and fascinating boundaries between poverty and wealth are revealed in the aerial photographs of Johnny Miller (RSA). The everyday yet unusual native region of Wallachia will be presented by Josef Vrážel (CZ), while the melancholically humorous corners of small Polish towns will be presented by Marcin Urbanowicz (PL). We will take a look at erotic balls with Roman Vondrouš (CZ), and visit Sokol gyms with Jan Jirkovský (CZ). Andrea Kalinová (SK) will give us the chills with the pictures of the last snow, and Václav Němec (CZ) will take us inside dilapidated mobile homes. The gray of normalization-era Prague will be brought to mind by the photographic legacy of mathematician Karel Bucháček (CZ).
Fascinaton, emotions, sadness, laughter in the right and the wrong places – and maybe even kittens thrown in for good measure.
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One of today's most original photographers and a member of the Magnum agency, Parke builds a silent monument to humanity – its passions, fears, and desire for meaning – with his black-and-white series. The contrasts of light and darkness reflect the transience of our existence: the time allotted to us as a species is, in the context of the universe, only a brief flash of light to which we constantly cling.
We usually imagine the boundary between wealth and poverty, between nature and man-made landscapes, only symbolically. Johnny Miller, however, captures it with very disturbing specificity. At first glance, the aesthetically impressive aerial shots turn, upon closer inspection, into uncompromising testimony to the social inequality that permeates cities and landscapes around the world.
In the series Last Snow, nostalgia mixes with absurdity – people skiing on the remnants of snow seem like an image of denial of reality. Artificial snowmaking extends the ski season, but represents a significant ecological burden. The series becomes a metaphor for our desire for entertainment which prevails over our responsibility towards the landscape which is slowly disappearing before our eyes.
In her self-portraits, the photographer engages in a silent dialogue with the landscape through her naked body. In her carefully staged black-and-white compositions, human body blends with stone, wind, trees, and light. The series is a meditation on belonging to the landscape, on the peace that comes from within when one becomes a part of nature, rather than its opposite.
Wallachia is not only Josef Vrážel's home, but also the main theme of his photographs. Tradition and modernity, everyday life and festive moments, work and leisure, sports and faith, childhood and old age, people and animals, countryside and city streets – all this creates a black-and-white yet colorful photographic mosaic, previously presented at the Leica Gallery in Prague.
Erotic balls, once a bold response to the gray prudery of socialism, filled the halls of local cultural centers in the 1990s. The laureate of the World Press Photo award and multiple winner of the Czech Press Photo award maps this curious phenomenon, which is slowly fading away, just like the hits of the popular Czech singer Helena Vondráčková performed by a local band...
Polish small towns are full of tiny absurd still lifes that tell their quiet stories – about the long aftermath of socialism, about the futile desire for exoticism and luxury, or even about the sincere effort to beautify one's surroundings. Just as people meet here, humor meets melancholy, irony meets understanding. Plus, it's easy to relate to them as they feel familiar, as they resemble our own surroundings more than we'd like.
Although more than 160 years have passed since Sokol was founded, its community of enthusiastic athletes retains the same energy and passion. Jan Jirkovský captures this in his photographs with a sensitivity for movement and humanity – from the youngest exercisers to seniors, from floor exercises and gymnastics to modern disciplines. His photographs radiate the joy of movement and the willingness to surpass oneself.
Caravans / mobile homes, once symbols of freedom and liberty, are transformed into melancholic witnesses of time in the photographs of a photographer from České Budějovice. Dilapidated caravans, their interiors and surroundings seem like frozen memories of a journey that has come to an end. The series is a poetic reflection on transience, on travels and their ends, on paths and detours, on dreams that have remained outside the beaten track.
Mathematician Karel Bucháček (1932–2008) is one of those artists whose talent was only discovered after his death. His archive revealed tens of thousands of photographs of Prague from the period of normalization – streets, demonstrations, everyday life. With a keen sense of composition, subtle irony, and understanding, he captured the city in its everyday life and absurdity, leaving behind a testimony to a time that took itself too seriously.
Nika Brunová
Negativy z popelnice
Karl Baden
Charles Brooks
Jana Šturdíková
Jean Philippe Bévillard
Barbara Peacock
Magdalena Wywrot
Nikita Teryoshin
Peter Korček
Anonymní fotografie z Československa 1968–1984
Filip Machač
Dan Materna
Marna Clarke
Nadav Kander
Synchrodogs
Libuše Jarcovjáková
Tavepong Pratoomwong
Filip Singer
Fabricio Brambatti
Luca Zanier
Alain Laboile
Soňa Maletz
Andrew Moore
Daniel Hušták
Lisa Krantz
Marja Pirilä
Susana Blasco
Viviane Sassen
Benoit Paillé
Paolo Woods & Gabriele Galimberti
Asger Carlsen
Robbie Augspurger
Tamas Dezso
Dorothée Smith
Mike Brodie
Paolo Patrizi
Peter Bialobrzeski
Elena Chernyshova
Chris Jordan
Alexander Gronsky
Sergey Maximishin
Tomasz Tomaszewski
Akos Czigany:
Skies (version 1)
Skies (version 2)
Erwin Olaf
Nikos Economopoulos
Reiner Riedler
Maciej Dakowicz
Geoffrey H. Short
Nils Jorgensen
Iren Stehli
Václav Jirásek
Anders Petersen
Bára Prášilová
Vanessa Winship
Bill McCullough
Kitra Cahana
Rafal Milach
Antonín Kratochvíl
Chema Madoz
Mitra Tabrizian
Michal Novotný
Tomki Němec
Jean Revillard
Miro Švolík
Bohdan Holomíček
Michal Macků:
Geláže
Uhlotisky
Michael Ackerman
Zoltán Vancsó
Michał Szlaga
Marcin Stawiarz
Tomáš Pospěch:
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Bezúčelná procházka
Look at the Future
Soňa Goldová
Milan Krištůfek
Martin Kollár
Pavel Černý
Barbora Krejčová
Milan David
František Weyda
Kamila Musilová
Tereza Vlčková
Petr Willert
Martina Mládková
Radka Doležalová
Jan Mahr
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Fotojatka is organized by Jan Flaška, who communicates with the authors, produces their slideshow, does all the graphics and web, presents the evening and takes care of all the organizational and technical matters around the festival. So for anything, please contact him.
His email is flaska at email dot cz, phone +420 777 637 108.
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