Confession

I take photos because I have to. Photography is a way for me how from a seemingly meaningless world glimpse a features
of a world that suddenly makes a sense. It is a world of fulfillment, direction, peace and harmony. The amazing thing is that
it can have an infinite number of forms. Capturing this meta-world in photography is a great happiness, joy, and passion for me.
 

The longer I take photos, the more I perceive and understand nature as a part of the universe where we have the opportunity
to live and be amazed. Because the fact that we are here is a miracle, the reasons for which few even suspect. We are primarily
born of stardust! Yet we often play at being masters of the “universe” and infallible experts of the world around us.
My admiration for nature and the harmonies that I find in it is therefore perhaps above all a thanksgiving for being here at all.
A cry of wonder and joy into the darkness of the surrounding universe.
 

Capturing - for example silence - is only possible if I have it within me first.

I think it is important that there is something like a secret in the photo. It corresponds to reality
- a certain vagueness and indistinctness, elusiveness, blurriness. After all, we know nothing,
the most we can know is that we know nothing.
 

And practical: The more you take photos, the more you take photos :).

Some quotes that stuck with me, and therefore must have some meaning for me (loosely quoted):

How can someone see a tree and not be happy?
F. M. Dostoevsky, The Idiot

They managed to live their lives, even though they were sentenced to life in prison.
The meaning still came to them.
Karel Pecka, Motáky nezvěstnému

Once we were talking confidentially about white people and he said: "We don't understand white people.
They always want something, they are always restless, they are constantly looking for something."
Chief of the Pueblo Indians in an interview with C. G. Jung.

Land (native – Czech republic)

I am from this land. I was born on it, just like my ancestors. I love it. I walk on its skin, among its hair, I touch it.
I capture its ever-changing face. I am composed of its elements. I am extremely strongly bound
to it and its being, present and past. The land from which we came is a fundamental existential certainty. The land is good.

Technique

Most of the photos on this website were created on film. The oldest pictures are taken on cine film (24 x 36),
since 2004 I have been shooting on medium format film (Mamiya RB 67) and large format film with Linhof Master Technique.
Since 2017 I have been shooting mainly on digital SLR (Nikon).