ABOUT
Lenka is a Czech photographer based in Prague. Her work was published in American newspapers New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, German Die Welt, and French Le Monde, as well as within the news and media platforms Bloomberg and Nieman Reports. She works for different clients, too, her specialization is in the portrait and documentary photography. Lenka is a member of two major international professional photography communities – Women Photograph and Diversity Photo Community. As a freelance photographer, Lenka is specialized in photojournalism and portraits, she works both for Czech and international media. In her freelance work, she is mainly focusing on social documentary photography, choosing strong topics with a social impact that can be explored photographically in depth within a wider time frame.
She is dealing with subjects, such as racial and social discrimination, and femininity.The Anti Baby Cycle project (since 2019) is Lenka‘s major work, mapping the stories of sterilized women by force in the former Czechoslovakia within the framework of the former state policy. Lenka‘s project The Traces We Leave Behind examines the effects of the state agricultural policy in Czechoslovakia on the environment throught the story of falcon breeding. The photo series Coke is dealing with the depopulation of the industrial landscape after the closure of the coal mines. Lenka's photographic work was shortlisted for the Czech Press Photo and International Photography Grant awards. Her photo series were exhibited in the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia recently.
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2024 - Sister of a sister of a sister, Leica Gallery Prague
2018 - Opava School – Close Up, Fotograie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main
2017 - Month Of Photography Bratislava
2017 - DOX, Over your eyes - Searching for proximity
2017 - Master's and diploma theses, Opava
2017 - Prague Photo, Prague
2016 - A Quarter of a Century, Prague
2015 - 25 years of the Institute of Creative Photography of the Silesian University in Opava, Opava
2015 - Prague Photo, Prague
2014 - Czech press photo, Prague
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2017 - International Photography Grant - Nominee
2014 - Czech press photo, Honorable Mention in category Portrait