Photographer - Antonin Kratochvil
Nationality: Czech, American
Subject of photography: photojournalist
Life dates: 1947
Sample of work:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Kratochvil
Antonín Kratochvíl (or Antonin Kratochvil; born 1947, Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born Americanphotojournalist. He is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency. He received his BFA in Photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academie which is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Kratochvil has photographed a wide variety of subjects, including Mongolia's street children for the Museum of Natural History and the war in Iraq for Fortune Magazine. He has three sons – Michael Kratochvíl and Wayne Anthony Cooper Kratochvil who are also photographers.
Ecological Activism
Vanishing, a book by Antonin Kratochvil, provides a unique compilation of images by a photographer who is distinguished by his great sensitivity to the plight of humans beings and animal species seeking survival in endangered habitats. The book provides a view into 16 of the most desperate conditions on this earth, “another planet’s hell,” the front cover declares. Although dealing with the most extreme forms of social and environmental degradation, Kratochvil spurns the pushiness of news coverage of these same issues, responding instead with images that are ephemeral occurrences he has encountered in everyday events. The stark black and white images never use sensational angles to exploit the pain of others; instead the book is a project in personal subjectivity and understatement. It is minute visual traces that tend to capture Kratochvil notice: Gorilla tracks found in the bush about illegal poaching (Congo), the shadow of leafless trees extending crippled limbs over a mining site (Guyana), tank treads and fleeing Iraqis (Basra).
Awards and Grants
He has received numerous grants and awards for his photography, most recently the 2005 Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photojournalism and the 2005 Golden Light Award for Best Documentary Book.
Link:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Kratochv%C3%ADl
www.viiphoto.com/author/antonin-kratochvil/
www.worldpressphoto.org/antonin-kratochvil
www.edkashi.com/hidden-prague-workshop-with-antonin-kratochvil/
www.wexphotographic.com/blog/the-work-of-antonin-kratochvil
www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/18/antonin-kratochvil-on-his-imaging-style/
Subject of photography: photojournalist
Life dates: 1947
Sample of work:
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| source: http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/the-work-of-antonin-kratochvil |
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| source: http://www.wexphotographic.com/blog/the-work-of-antonin-kratochvil |
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| source: http://edkashi.com/hidden-prague-workshop-with-antonin-kratochvil/ |
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Kratochvil
Antonín Kratochvíl (or Antonin Kratochvil; born 1947, Litoměřice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech-born Americanphotojournalist. He is a founding member of the VII Photo Agency. He received his BFA in Photography from Gerrit Rietveld Academie which is located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Kratochvil has photographed a wide variety of subjects, including Mongolia's street children for the Museum of Natural History and the war in Iraq for Fortune Magazine. He has three sons – Michael Kratochvíl and Wayne Anthony Cooper Kratochvil who are also photographers.
Ecological Activism
Vanishing, a book by Antonin Kratochvil, provides a unique compilation of images by a photographer who is distinguished by his great sensitivity to the plight of humans beings and animal species seeking survival in endangered habitats. The book provides a view into 16 of the most desperate conditions on this earth, “another planet’s hell,” the front cover declares. Although dealing with the most extreme forms of social and environmental degradation, Kratochvil spurns the pushiness of news coverage of these same issues, responding instead with images that are ephemeral occurrences he has encountered in everyday events. The stark black and white images never use sensational angles to exploit the pain of others; instead the book is a project in personal subjectivity and understatement. It is minute visual traces that tend to capture Kratochvil notice: Gorilla tracks found in the bush about illegal poaching (Congo), the shadow of leafless trees extending crippled limbs over a mining site (Guyana), tank treads and fleeing Iraqis (Basra).
Awards and Grants
He has received numerous grants and awards for his photography, most recently the 2005 Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photojournalism and the 2005 Golden Light Award for Best Documentary Book.
Link:
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Kratochv%C3%ADl
www.viiphoto.com/author/antonin-kratochvil/
www.worldpressphoto.org/antonin-kratochvil
www.edkashi.com/hidden-prague-workshop-with-antonin-kratochvil/
www.wexphotographic.com/blog/the-work-of-antonin-kratochvil
www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/03/18/antonin-kratochvil-on-his-imaging-style/
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