contact: bredak79@gmail.com
"Art washes away the dust of everyday life from the soul." (Picasso)
I am a fine-art photographer (self-taught) and art lover. I was born in 1979 in Cheb, Czechia, but since 2011 I have been living in France. I started taking photos in 2002 with an analog camera and I developed the photos and negatives myself in my home darkroom. Since 2014, I have been photographing exclusively with a digital camera. In my artistic work I focus on three photographic themes: nude (nudity without visage) / pseudo-portrait (calm visages) / abstract (inner landscapes)... all these themes are interconnected and influence each other. The closest to my heart is a series titled: nudity without visage... to this artistic work I dedicate most of my time, passion, love and commitment.
My photos are classical and old-fashioned.. taken without any computer or photoshop tricks, photo manipulations, AI or anything of that sort. They are all the result of optical illusions, reflections, play of lights, props and decorative accessories. 99% of them are created in a studio environment, which allows me to pay full attention to every detail and have full control over the atmosphere and 'landscape' of the image. My artistic intention is to achieve a visual result on the border between photography and painting/drawing... ideally with a very significant texture and rich image layers. All my photographic work is more or less influenced by my passion for the art of the first half of the twentieth century.. mainly surrealism, cubism, abstraction, but also Czech photographic avant-garde.
All my photos are taken in a RAW digital format.. subsequently processed in a basic Raw program where only brightness and contrast are finely edited (just like in a darkroom for analog photography).. then they are converted to JPG format.. and finally printed on a high-quality baryta photo-paper.
Always black and white and always photographed vertically.. with a strong artistic impression.. decorative, poetic, imaginative and slightly surreal.. that's exactly how I love it!
AWARDS:
2026 PX3 - Prix de la Photographie Paris: bronze winners / category: fine art amateur (series of 8 nude photos titled: La nudité sans visage)
2026 MonoVisions B&W Photography Awards: 2x honorable mention / category: fine art series (4 nude photos titled: black lines of nudity) + abstract series (7 photos titled: external dreamy rifts)
2025 Monochrome B&W Photography Awards: honorable mention / category: fine art amateur (single nude photo)
2022 MonoVisions B&W Photography Awards: honorable mention / category: fine art series (8 nude photos)
2021 Monochrome B&W Photography Awards: 2x honorable mention / category: nude amateur (single photo) + portrait amateur (single photo titled: self-portrait)
2004 Czech magazine Photo-life: 2x honorable mention / category: nude, portrait (2 analog nude photos)
2003 Czech magazine Photo-life: honorable mention / category: nude, portrait (analog nude photo)
