Exhibition graphics and visuals for the National Gallery's exhibition 1989 at the Trade Fair Palace in Prague. This exhibition was organised to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution as part of the project Havel na Hrad! (Havel to the Castle!). Architect Zbyněk Baladrán.
Jan calls himself Buffalo. He loves cowboys, he’s blind, and may lose his hearing. This book follows his journey to America to visit the medicine man of the Navajo tribe, who wants to perform a ritual to help his hearing. The book includes authentical drawings by the medicine man of the Navajo tribe Blackhorse + photographic series by Roman Franc from Shiprock in New Mexico. Photography © Roman Franc.
Poster design for the documentary movie My Name Is Hungry Buffalo about Jan who calls himself Buffalo. He loves cowboys, he’s blind, and may lose his hearing. This movie follows his journey to America to visit the chief of the Navajo tribe, who wants to perform a ritual to help his hearing. Photography © Roman Franc.
On the occassion of the premiere of the documentary movie My Name Is Hungry Buffalo, this silkscreen print was released in the limited number of 30 prints. Last copies still available for purchase.
Metropolight is young Czech photographer David Gaberle’s debut publication. Although the book presents his first-ever comprehensive photographic series, the result feels eminently mature. The pictures were taken in hypermodern cities such as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Sydney, London, and New York. Gaberle observes alleyways, stairwells, parks, train stations, subway cars, galleries, and bridges, slowly revealing the hidden order that exists between the world of things and the world of people. In his introduction to the book, author Petr Volf writes: “The photographs’ range of color carries symbolic meanings, and the lights of the visited cities – whether natural, direct, or artificial – become lighthouses which make us feel safe.”
This book is based on documentary footage during the research stay of literary documentary filmmaker Barbora Baronová at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Over the course of 5 months, she conducted over twenty documentary interviews with prominent Australian artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists and journalists, with whom she researched women's issues regardless of their cultural differences. All the women were portrayed by photographer Dita Pepe.
For last 15 years photographer Dita Pepe has been exploring ideas of identity and environment in two photographic series titled Self-portraits with men and Self-portraits with women. She seeks to completely assimilate into the lives of other people. The book cover uses a variety of her own signatures to underline the same idea of identity but using a typographic language.
A book by sociologist and former politician Fedor Gál in dialogue with Klára Jurštáková. Individual chapters discuss the topics of the relationship between life and death, the ability and willingness of people to sacrifice life, attitudes and rituals associated with death and attitudes to death, the concept and problem of freedom, home, art in life, the right to euthanasia and abortion, the topic of violence, heroism, life after death, etc. These subjects are approached from the point of view of various scientific disciplines and the intergenerational transmission of spirituality.
For previous book mojich tridsať rokov I have created 19 original paper collages. These collages are assembled from magazines, newspapers, ads, published in Czechoslovakia in early 1990s. They function as visual fragments and witnesses of that time, as well as personal texts written by contributors. Hopefully the collages encourage readers to evoke their own associations and memories of the important events of that time. The collages are printed only in two colors – black and metallic silver.
In 2019 it will be 30 years since the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. Former politician, a founding member of the revolution movement VPN, sociologist and writer Fedor Gál asks seventeen individuals to share their reflections and memories about their post-revolutionary life.
