Jiří Nováček is a art & documentary photographer based in the Czech republic from the  city of Jihlava, graduate faculty Creative Photography at the ITF institute of the Silesian University in Opava. He worked with the studio of Ivo Holan and several other artists in the past.

       For over 20 years, he has been working on photographic projects in his home country of the Czech Republic as well as abroad. During his studies in Great Britain, he worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum and there, through 2005–2008, he gradually created one of his projects put on exhibition later on –the London’s Walk. His work in general is intended for exhibitions. His other projects include the Benedictines, Gradus Ad Deum, created dutiny 2008–2009 and documenting monastic life, or Domicilia, a publication made in 2010–2011 documenting clients of a social care home. His other works originated during his tours of the Balkans, Germany, Austria, Italy, Benelux, Spain, France and Ireland; an exhibition documentary called Transmissie 2012 made in Holland is also worth mentioning here. By 2024, he has already completed more than twenty exhibitions and curatorial projects.

       He continuously works on several other, predominantly long-term documentary projects (document the life of aristocratic families), commercial photography, however, is not missing in his portfolio, either.

       Another set dealing with commercial and staged photography, reportage photography includes a continuing series of portrait and fashion photography shot in a similar style, reflecting the singular individuality of the subjects. (short verzion)

+ 420 604 494 224 novacek.ji@seznam.cz