Jan's practice operates at the intersection of photography, installation, and digital research. His work does not treat photography as a self-contained medium but rather as a point of departure – a lens through which to interrogate the conditions of image-making itself: the infrastructure of visibility, the politics of surveillance, the entanglement of technology with landscape and memory. He works fluidly across still image, live feed, web-based publication, and physical installation, consistently locating his inquiries at the boundary between the screen and the space.
text by – Bára Mrázková
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>2020–2024
>applied photography and media
>studio head: František Konopa, Karel Pobříslo
>University of West Bohemia – The Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Plzeň, Czech Republic
>2024–ongoing
>photography studio
>studio head: Bára Mrázková, Libuše Jarcovjáková
>Prior Bratislava>exhibited: distant vantage point>2025
>Sustainable Stories Film Festival 2025
>Alvin Community College Gallery, Texas USA
>University of Huston-Clear Lake >exhibited: distant vantage point
>2025
>Blatenský fotofestival 20. ročník
>Blatná city museum>exhibited: watchful, unseen presence>group exhibition - Photography studio LSFDA
>2025
>Premiere of the short film Somnia Doctrina
>Gallery Duhová paleta, Karlovy Vary>exhibited: Somnia Doctrina (watch here...)>2023
>Umění současné keramky - 150 let SUPŠKV
>Interactive gallery Becherova vila, Karlovy Vary>exhibited: Perception>ISBN: 9788088319443 (link) >2022-2023
>advertising photography, cultural event photography, exhibition documentation, poster/book design etc.
>2020–ongoing
>Listy ašska
>press photography and graphic design>April 2023
>Fotograf Zone Festival 2025
>exhibition installation assistant
>October 2025
>Střední uměleckoprůmyslová škola keramická a sklářská in Karlovy Vary>creation of a photographic project focused on the urban revitalization for the city of Seville>June – July 2023