Born 9 June 1954 in Prague Freelance photographer and artist

Member of the Association of the Professional Photographers in the Czech Republic

Member of the Syndicate of the journalists in the Czech Republic

www..world-music.cz

He focuses especially on the music and theatre photography.

He creates the covers to the audio-visual media, cooperates with significant musical festivals, publishing houses, journals and musicians. He was an activist in the Jazz section of the Union of the musicians in the Czech Republic; he participated in the realisation of the publications published by this organisation and also helps with the organisation of the festival Prague Jazz Days in the seventies and eighties.

After the year 1989 we worked on the artistic and publishing conception of the musical publishing house Bonton, later Sony Music.

In present, he focuses next to photography, art designs and journal realisations, on the production of audio-visual media, books, exhibitions, concerts and festivals. He cooperates with the festivals like United Island Of Prague, Colours of Ostrava, Sázavafest, Folkové prázdniny Náměšť nad Oslavou. He is also documenting the festival Blues Alive in Šumperk with the photographer Tomáš Turek.

He participated with his photos on the book by Jiřina Chrastilová – Devět židovských cest (Paseka, 2008), by Jiří Moravčík – V tlamě afrického krokodýla (Signeta, 2006) and Když píseň tluče křídly do oken (Galén, 2009).