Vojtěch Plhák
#2 min Vojtěch Plhák
28. 6. 2026
The everyday life of the place where I was born and raised has never been essential to me. Yet it is interesting how, over the course of my life, my perspective on it gradually changes. I search within myself for who I was as a child. After moving to Zlín and later to Prague, I return home eager to find out. I look for things that were around me but which I could not perceive with my eyes or mind.
I enjoy moments when I don’t have to think about the speed and bustle of the city I am in daily contact with. I can slow down, take a breath. I close my eyes, and suddenly a seemingly different rhythm of the place unfolds before me. The village flows at its own pace. Time does not fragment into endless tasks but spreads across small everyday situations—the work in the garden, the quiet street through which people ride bikes instead of cars. I begin to sense the rawness of ordinary life, which has always been here; I just couldn’t grasp it before. It is precisely this everydayness that becomes meaningful to me. A place where banality is not empty but, on the contrary, full of intriguing little things and human presence.
Childhood lies in the palm of your hand when life turns it over,
and it can smell of a blooming orchard.
For a fleeting moment it still shines in the pebbles
before it ends up somewhere in the back.
Yet it does not vanish completely; when you turn,
it will caress you.
Childhood is every fleeting memory,
childhood is your little child.
You love him—it will not betray you.
Martin Plhák
#18 min Ariella Azoulay
Ariella Azoulay – Seeing Genocide: Weaponization of Images
The essay by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines the relationship between images, genocidal violence, and the mechanisms through which it is legitimized. The author challenges the idea of photography as neutral testimony and shows how images can serve not only to document suffering, but also to normalize it, obscure it, or politically justify it. In the text, she connects contemporary images from Gaza with the long history of settler-colonial violence against populations and asks what remains outside the frame of the visible.
#5 min Editorial
Fotograf Zone Festival – International Open Call
16. 8. 2026Your Work in Public Space!
#4 min Editorial
Fotograf Magazine Open Call 2026 – Winners
#2 min Editorial
SAVE THE DATE – FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2026
Fotograf Zone Festival invites audiences to its 16th edition, taking place from 1 to 11 October 2026 across several venues in Prague. Under the title Wild Kin, this year’s festival will explore questions of relationships, attention, and forms of coexistence in the contemporary world.
#9 min Lenka Glisníková
Lenka Glisníková – Photography Can Still Be New and Bold
Lenka Glisníková is one of the leading voices in contemporary Czech photography, although her practice cannot be contained within the boundaries of the medium alone. For her, photography is a starting point, a material, and a space for experimentation. In her projects, she connects the image with objects, installations, and performative actions, exploring how technological change shapes our perception of reality, work, and everyday experience. Rather than seeing photography as a definitive record, she approaches it as a process: a mutable organism capable of changing its form, material, and meaning.
#2 min Linda Zhengová
Linda Zhengová – Maybe, Happiness Is…
#5 min Daniela Kozáková
10 Tips for Collectors: How to Enjoy an Art Fair
Visiting art fairs is an essential experience for art collectors for many reasons. Participation in the most important fairs is considered prestigious not only for galleries and artists, but also for other professionals across the art world. Art fairs are global platforms, bringing together galleries, artists and artistic movements from around the world. At the same time, they can be intense and overwhelming experiences, so a little preparation beforehand can help you get the most out of your visit.
#4 min Editorial
Eda Babák: A Moped, Friendship, and a Community Built Through Shared Work
On Thursday, 18 June, Fotograf Zone Gallery will open Babetta 207, an exhibition by Eda Babák, a graduate of the Photography Studio F2 at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (UMPRUM). The project follows the restoration of the iconic Czechoslovak moped in a way that extends far beyond technical documentation. It is a story of friendship, shared labour, and a community that takes shape around machines, tools, and grease-stained hands.