THE Czech Embassy in the Philippines brings to the public a glimpse of Czech photography and style at its finest with the oeuvres of renowned Czech photographer Jiří Turek, as his cityLOVE exhibition debuts for the first time in Manila.
As former editor of MF Dnes magazine, Turek started to gain the spotlight by specializing in reportage, portraiture and fashion photography. He has produced works featured in top magazines in Europe, incuding fashion editorials for Elle, Maxim and Harper’s Bazaar, dozens of front covers for Forbes Czech Republic, and exclusive work for Forbes Slovakia and Forbes Austria in 2016.
Turek has also worked on numerous album covers and major advertising campaigns for T-Mobile, Finlandia Vodka, Aegon, Vodafone, Oriflame, Škoda Auto, Raiffeisen Bank and many more. These days, he routinely conducts workshops and seminars with the South Moravia Photoworkshop.
With all his commercial and fashion work, Turek revisited his “forgotten techniques”, thus giving birth to the cityLOVE series of documenting the world’s most iconic and vibrant cities of London, New York, Paris, Berlin, Venice and Prague.
The cityLOVE exhibition, which is a selection of cityLAB exhibited in the prestigious Leica Gallery in New York in 2006, runs from March 7 to April 14 in Alliance Française de Manille.
According to Czech Ambassador Jaroslav Olša Jr., “The show is the continuation of the embassy’s photography program, which already included an exhibition of postmodern Czech photography and a lecture on its history, both with the Camera Club in the Philippines, a planned retrospective of leading Czech war photographer Jan Šibík, and the exhibition of the winning photos of yearly Czech Press photo exhibitions.”
Image credits: Jiří Turek