Lenka - twenty years of collaboration with one woman

When I met her, she was all over the photo online world I knew and she had short hair. I was shooting with Canon film camera and just begun experimenting with my new Haseelblad and middle sized format films. I do not remember anymore who asked whom, but we agreed on our first shooting very fast. I liked her, she was beautiful, but a bit differently, not the next door neighbour pretty, but more of an interesting beauty. Also, she was ready for every weird thing to be photographed. Not long after our first photo-session she has shaved her head so we had to take photos of that. And we pretty much had to take photos of a lot of things throughout all those years. She came to see me in Athens when I lived there, when I visited Czech, she was always on my list of people to see. When I got back from Greece, she became a mother and consequently she had three daugters. Her photos hang on all my exhibitions, I even thoughts I could make one only of her photos.

When I work with her, we do not talk much, she knows what I want and she inserts it in the photo and I am sure I can pick her for any phots I have in mind, she can never fail me. For the long years of collaboration (and friendship) I managed to put apples, paints, tissues and whatnot on her face, I asked her to crate unnatural body poses, I asked her to lie on a swing in five degrees Celsius, I made her stand in mud without giving her anything to clean herself afterwards. I photographed her naked at Vitkov, Prague, in my studio, in a forrest, on the beach, in some borrowed flats, with masks on her face. She is extremely susceptible, talented and smart woman and without her I can not even imagine my artistic work happening. Look for yourselves through random and subjective selection of photos we have created over the years.