Antonín Kratochvíl

Antonín Kratochvíl (1947) is a world-renowned photojournalist. He left Czechoslovakia in the late 1960s; he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and later settled in the US where he has lived since. His photos have appeared in the New York Times, Newsweek, Paris Match, Dispatches, and Fortune magazine, among others. Besides many other awards, he has twice won the First Prize of the World Press Photo competition (in 1997 and 2003). He photographed the genocides in Zaire and Rwanda, refugees in Bosnia and Afghanistan, AIDS victims in Zimbabwe, drug smugglers in Guatemala as well as the war in Iraq. He authored several books such as Broken Dream (1997) compiled of photos taken in post-communist countries over two decades, Vanishing (2005) depicting the destruction of nature, and Moscow Nights (2010) with photos taken in luxurious clubs of the Russian capital. He could only exhibit in his native country after the fall of communism. Besides his photojournalism, he is also an acclaimed portraitist. At the Mikulov Art Symposium this year, he made portraits in which he deformed the faces of the models with ropes, following up on his work from previous stays in 2006 and 2007. During his first appearance in Mikulov, he staged scenes inspired by the infamous photos showing torture of Iraqi prisoners by US troops (Hommage to Abu Ghraib), and he also shot portraits during his second stay in Mikulov.
www.antoninkratochvil.com

Dogma
in cooperation with Honza Malý Jr. Photography, 100 × 70 cm; 2013

List of artists participating in MAS "dílna" in 1994–2010

Adam Štech , Adéla Strnadová , Aleš Brázdil , Alexander Tinei , Barbora Kurtinová , David Krňanský , Denisa Krausová , Emőke Vargová , Eugeniusz Józefowski , Eva Turnová , Filip Dvořák , František Skála , Hana Puchová , Jakub Lipavský , Jakub Tomáš , Jaroslav Beneš , Jaroslav Róna , Jiří Černický , Jiří Kačer , Julie Béna , Julius Reichel , Klára Čermáková , Klára Štefanovičová , Kurt Gebauer , Laco Teren , Libor Lípa Marie Tomanová (2020 , 2021) , Michael Jan Bublík , Michaela Černická , Mirek Zahálka , Natálie Colledani , Ondřej Oliva , Petr Nikl , Roel Van Der Linden , Roman Výborný , Sofie Švejdová , Stefan Milkov , Svatopluk Klimeš , Tomáš Tichý , Vitaly Pushitsky , Vojtěch Horálek , Zdena Kolečková , Zdeněk Lhotský , Peter Angermann , Mathias Antlfinger / Ute Hörner Nikos Armutidis (1994 , 1999 , 2003) , Mikoláš Axmann , Jan Bačkovský , Anna Balážová , Alena Beldová , Karl – Heinz Bethmann , Václav Bláha , David Böhm , Erika Bornová , Machiel Botman , Tereza Brichtová , Veronika Bromová , Milan Cais Tomáš Císařovský (2000 , 2001 , 2003) , Martin Čada , Ondřej Čech , Rostislav Čuřík Jiří David (2007 , 2008 , 2013) Stanislav Diviš (1998 , 2014) , Tea Dohnalová Milena Dopitová (2010 , 2013 , 2009) , Martin Dostál , Jana Doubková Eva Eisler (2005 , 2006 , 2013) , Luděk Filipský , Jiří Franta , Vladimír Franz , Monika Fryčová , Michal Gabriel , Martin Gerboc , Zdeněk Halla , David Hanvald , Zbyněk Havlín , Duncan Higgins , František Hodonský , Vladimír Houdek , Milan Houser , Dalibor Chatrný , Jeff Chiplis , Matyáš Chochola Petr Jareš (1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 2003) , Eva Jirička , Irena Jůzová , Michal Kalhous , Kristýna Kašparová , Vladimíra Klumparová , Richard Kočí , Ondřej Kohout , Igor Korpaczewski , Inge Kosková , Eva Koťátková , Nina Kotel , Alena Kotzmannová , Jiří Kovanda , Vojtěch Kovářík , František Kowolowski , Radovan Král , Vendula Pucharová Kramářová , Antonín Kratochvíl Antonín Kratochvíl (2006 , 2013) Milan Kunc (2000 , 2012) , Tomáš Lahoda , Otis Laubert Zdeněk Lhotský (1994 , 1995) Libor Lípa (1994 , 2000 , 2003 , 2013 , 2011) Ivana Lomová (2001 , 2002 , 2003) , Barbora Lungová , Petr Lysáček , Christian Macketanz , Martin Mainer , Werner Mally , Břetislav Malý , Tomáš Medek , Johana Merta , Vladimír Merta , Svätopluk Mikyta Stefan Milkov (1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , David Možný , Aleš Najbrt , Klára Nejezchlebová , Jaromíra Němcová , Jakub Nepraš Petr Nikl (2001 , 2003) , Libor Novotný Vít Novotný (1997 , 2003) Pavel Opočenský (1999 , 2018) , Petra Pavlicová , Jiří Pikous , Tereza Brichtová Pirščová , Petr Písařík , Jan Pištěk , Viktor Pivovarov , Tomáš Plachký , Otto Placht , Aldin Popaja , Tomáš Prokop , Viktorie Prokopová Martina Riedlbauchová (1996 , 1997 , 1999 , 2003) , Veronika Richterová , Ulric Roldanus Jaroslav Róna (1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Tomáš Ruller , Kamila Rýparová , Vladimir Salnikov , František Skála , Vladimír Skrepl , Roman Sliwka , Daniela Sneppová Jiří Sobotka (1999 , 2005 , 2013) , Společné dílo kurátorů 2004 – 2013 Tono Stano (1998 , 2018) , Jan Stolín Václav Stratil (2004 , 2011) , Antonín Střížek , Corine Stübi Čestmír Suška (1996 , 1997 , 2003) , Evžen Šimera , Jaromír Šimkůj , Michal Šmeral , Vladimír Špaček , Jakub Špaňhel , Karel Štědrý , Jindřich Štreit , Laco Teren Oldřich Tichý (2014 , 2015) , Margita Titlová Ylovsky , Michaela Klimanová Trizuljaková , Účastníci 10. ročníku MVS , Katarína Hládeková , Woody Vasulka , Tereza Velíková , Aleš Veselý Petr Veselý (2014 , 2016) Kateřina Vincourová (2005 , 2017) , Eva Vones , Jiří Votruba Michaela Vrbková (2010 , 2012) Margita Titlová Ylovsky (1999 , 2004) , František Zelinka Petr Zubek (2007 , 2013 , 2009) , Peter Župník

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