Jiøí Turek

Jiri Turek was born in Prague, Czech Republic in 1965. IN 1990 he launched his professional career as a press photographer in MFDaily, one of Europe’s largest daily newspapers. During his time there Jiri accompanied the President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Havel on his travels throughout the world, reported on events from the war zone in Bosnia and Croatia as well as in countries of the former USSR, such as Georgia. In 1995 he became the editor of the MFDaily weekly magazine and specialized in fashion and portrait photography. Since 1998 he is one of the most respected and sought after freelance photographers in the country.
Aside from his professional occupation, Jiri has been teaching photography at the Silesian University and now chairs photography seminars organized by South Moravia Photoworkshop and Leica Gallery Prague.
A lot of Jiri’s work focuses on commercial photography and advertisement. He believes in delivering the highest quality commercial photography and meeting client expectations to the fullest extent.
Further to this, Jiri has always placed high importance to his personal artistic work and has been exhibiting ever since he started his career. The pinnacle of his personal work has been a 2006 exhibition in the prestigious Leica Galery New York which was after great success presented again in Leica Gallery Prague two years later and then again in 2009 in India Habitat Centre New Delhi . The pictures exhibited at these two shows were a combination of Jiri’s private fashion work and his project cityLab, which is an emotive study of the words most exciting cities, capturing their particular atmosphere and feeling. cityLab began in New York, where Jiri has spent four years of his professional life, and has been his greatest artistic ambition ever since.

Jiri believes the best equipped fashion studio to be the street, with the most genuine models being ordinary people. He has found that in every city there is a different kind of sex appeal, style and sentiment, which is what he attempts to capture with his camera in countries all around the world. Jiri tries to project the subjectivity of experience of different cities and his ultimate aim is to provoke in the viewers of his art familiar feelings and emotions based on their personal memories and experience of a place. The project still has a big ambition as many places yet remain to be visited and many a story of the ordinary people on the street captured. Awards : Czech Press Photo: 1st prize Art and fashion (1998, 1999) "LOUSKACEK" advertising photo award (2001 T – Mobile Click) "LOUSKACEK" advertising photo award (2007 - Linka bezpeèí) Major exhibition: 2006 Leica Gallery New York 2007 Leica Gallery Prague 2009 India Habitat Centre New Delhi

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