*1976 Bratislava

2003 Master´s degree FAMU

As photographer and publicist cooperate with many magazines and papers in Czech Republic and Slovakia (Život, Domino forum, Sme, Miau, Marianne, Instinkt)

and with publishing house Columbus and Metafora.

She attends to  nude photography and portraits

Personal exhibitions

2009 - Nudes, Embassy of Czech Republic, Mexico City, Mexico

2008 - Nudes, Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexiko

2005 - He and she, Gallery Art Factory, Prague

Graduated at Creative Photography Institute of Silesian University in Opava. Since 1993 free-lance photographer. Besides his artist creation focused on photography – especially nudes, imaginative landscapes, dokumentary photography from life – he works in his own proffesional photographic studio (advertising, product, architectural and landscape photography). Cooperates with plenty of agencies, newspapers, magazines. Since 2000 curator of Gallery Atrium by Hotel Hvězda in Mariánské Lázně, where he organized more than 50 exhibitions of artists, photographers, graphic artists, ceramists.

Gilles Plazy worked for many years as a journalist for various French newspapers and magazines (Combat, Le Monde, Le Quotidien de Paris, Elle, Museart, Les Nouvelles Littéraires..), while at the same time writing, painting and creating photography. Since 1970, he has published some 40 books, including biographies, essays on artists and writers, novels, poetry..
Most recent publications : Picasso (Folio/Biographies), Julien Gracq (La Part Commune).
Lives in Paris and in Britanny.

Born in Sweden in 1964, grew up in Denmark. After highschool working as a shipyard worker and a busdriver. Travels in Asia and Eastern Europe. Educated 1989-1992 at the Nordic Photo School in Stockholm, Sweden. Since then freelance photographer, living in Stockholm, working primarily with reportages and portraits for magazines and newspapers as well as self initiated projects. Represented by Silver Picture Agency, Stockholm. Occasionally working as lecturer and workshop leader at photo schools in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Minsk.

has been engaged in creative production since 70s, his first oil-paintings are from 1983. Before 1989 belonged amongst youngest members of the Artist club in Cheb and is one of the few members, who still creates. Before 1989 he also established „Jiří Studio“ aimed at  painting, design, graphics and intensively at photography. Since Gallery 4 was opened, he has been regularly joining workshops organized by G4 (for example: The School of Seeing, international workshops of dokumentary photography, painting or sculpture) and many other all over the Czech Republic and abroad.

Studies:

2003  International Center of Photography, (ICP); Semestral course - Alternative photo-techniques, New York

1999 - 2003 Master of Art; AMU, Film studies, (FAMU); Photography, Prague

1998  Research fellowship; photographic studies; Sarasota; New York

1993 - 1997 Bachelor of Art; Silesian University, (ITF), Opava

1990 - 1993 Training college; photography, Prague