about

Photography has been my passion since age eleven when my grandpa gifted me an old 6x6 camera and two rolls of film. After years of taking pictures of “anything and everything”, I have focused intensely on the art nude genre since 2017. I was driven initially by my long-term fascination with the high end photography shown in the leading fashion magazines and advertising campaigns. I intensely studied the techniques and aesthetics of my “hero masters” many of whom alternated between their commercial fashion work and the nude art form as part of their personal work.

A defining step came when I became investor in a newly built 260 sqm studio in Bratislava, Slovakia (www.ateliersvetlik.sk) through which I gained a space to shoot at, but also closeness to a community of artists, some of whom have since become an integral part of my photography team. Teamwork is the cornerstone of my creative process, as much as it has always been central to my day-to-day entrepreneurial business in finance and investments.

While my photography is grounded in the appreciation of female beauty, there is strong inspiration in Nature, going back to my childhood spent in the mountains and forests of North Bohemia, and in the classical arts of painting and sculpture, where my interest was piqued early in life by my parents and grandparents. Last but not least, I also enjoy the “edgier edges” of the art nude genre, including the various forms of fetish fantasies, while always striving to preserve harmony between the provocative and the tasteful.

It is my aim to distinguish my art by adding production value to my shoots, through carefully scouted or hard-to-access locations, specially made props and backgrounds, use of creative lighting and collaboration with other professions, such as stylists, hair and make-up or calligraphy artists. Ultimately, my goal is to approach the production quality of my “master heroes”, while creating images that reflect my own passions, inspirations and fantasies. I don’t aspire to please everyone, but do hope that my photography will give pleasure to those viewers who appreciate the hard work, creative thought and inputs that my team and I have spend in creating it.