Evžen Sobek

The owner and teacher at the Brno Photo School, an external educator at the Institute of Creative Photography of the Philosophical-Natural Sciences Faculty at the Silesian University in Opava. He works as a freelance photographer as well. He is curator of the photographic galleries FOMA in Brno (1999-2001) and the Artists Gallery in Brno (since 2005).

Besides his earlier experimental work with the photogram technique, he also devotes his time to systematic documentaries – specifically to socially-oriented documentary photography similar to the works of J. Štreit (pictures from the life of the Premonstrate monks at the monastery in Želiv – the collection, Convent / Konvent (1993 – 1994) or the People of the Hlučín Area / Lidé Hlučínska from the 1990s (1994 – 1995). He then gradually moved on to much more ambiguous photographic messages – Roma in the City of Brno / Romové ve městě Brně (1998 – 1999). His work to date culminated in the subjective documentary shots, compiled into the collection, Ecce homo, and created gradually since 1999 in the Czech Republic, France, Portugal and Israel.

In recent years he has created primarily colour documentary series of photographs from the Czech Republic – My Country / Má vlast.

2005

Advertising Campaign for Hospise in Rajhrad, Rajhrad, Czech Republic

Marta Dohnalova fashion - leading Czech fashion designer catalogue

2005 - 2007

Photographic stories for BLUE SKY - Sky Europe Airlines inflight Magazine covering flight destinations in Europe

2007

photographs for ENGLISH PAGES 2 – documentary film by Marek Sklář, Czech Television

2009

Who is Who in Czech Republic, Zurich

2008

Life in Blue - catalogue acompanying the exhibition, Brno

Old Age - Foundation of Tatana Kucharova Callender 2009, Praha

Second Cities, catalogue of the project's presentation, Kosice

2007

Second Cities - Photo Project, www.2ndcities.net, Košice

Greenpeace Czech Republic Callender 2008, Brno

Po meste, jez je mi souzeno - Brnenska zakouti v poezii, Weles, Brno

2006

Theory of Photography of the Czech Photographic Avantgarde, Master degree diploma work published as lecture notes, Institute of Creative Photography, Opava

2005

Czech Photography of the 20th Century - Guide, Museum of Aplied Arts Prague, Kant, Praha

2004

Photobiennale 2004 – Cinquiéme Mois International de la Photographie á Moscou, Moscow

Ecce Homo, catalogue acompanying the exhibition in Leica Gallery Prague, Brno

CHOICE - Credit Suisse Masterclass Portfolio, Cultural Exchange Foundation, Washington

2003

Institute of Creative Photography - Diploma and Final Portfolios 1998 - 2003, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava

2002

Photographs by the Next Generation: Young Portfolio, Kiyosato Museum of Photograpfic Arts, Kiyosato

Czech and Slovak Photography of the 1980s and 1990s, Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc

Who is Who in the Czech republic 2002, Praha

My point of view - Leica photographic diary 2003, Leica AG, Solms

Backlight02, Museum Centre Vapriiki, Tampere

2001

Ecce Homo, Galeria Velryba and FAMU, Praha

Das BildForum, 6. Internationale Fototage ,Herten

Das Jahrzehnt, Internationaler Preis fur jungen Bildjournalismus 1991 - 2001, BildForum and Agfa, Leverkusen

Love - a celebration of humanity, M.I.L.K. publishing limited, New York

Ecce Homo, catalogue acompanying the exhibition in MiO Gallery, Osaka, Brno

2000

MiO Photo Award, MiO Gallery, Osaka

SCRIPTUM - magazine for literature, arts and life, Olomouc

1999

People of Hlučín Region in 1990s, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava

Ecce Homo - Photographs by Evžen Sobek, Institute of Creative Photography of Silesian University, Opava

1996

Na rozhraní - Grenzbereiche, Galerie Salzstadel, Regensburg

Pospěch, Tomáš: Dokument, jenž se hrdě vznáší. Ateliér, 2001, č. 7, s. 6.

Evžen Sobek: Teoretické práce české fotografické avantgardy. Magisterská diplomová práce publikovaná jako skriptum ITF FPF SU v Opavě, Slezská univerzita, Opava 2004. 120 s. ISBN 800-7248-280-7