Jarmila Kovaříková (1979)

After her graduation from DAMU (Theatre Academy of Performing Arts), she collaborated with reputable filmmakers on documentaries for Czech Television. Later worked as a photographer for the daily newspaper Lidove noviny for three years and for ISIFA/GETTY IMAGES for two years. She is now freelance and pursues reportage, portrait and stylistic photography. Capturing reality in a compelling way without the photographer’s interference is her favourite field of photography. In the last five years she’s made journeys to developing countries documenting social issues. Among the most notable are her features about the problems of AIDS in Southern India, orphans living in the sewers of Odessa in Ukraine, the lives and the training of wrestlers from poor backgrounds in Senegal and The Gambia and the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Her photographs appear in reputable Czech and foreign magazines. She was awarded Honorary Mention in the Everyday Life category in Czech Press Photo 2009 for her photographs of labourers in an Ethiopian crater. One year after she was awarded First Prize in the Reportage for her photographs from Haiti after earthquake in the same competition.  

PRICES:

2009 CZECH PRESS PHOTO - čestné uznání, série, kategorie Každodenní život – Utopeni v soli (dělníci vulkanického kráteru El Sod v jižní Etiopii)
2010 CZECH PRESS PHOTO – 1. cena, kategorie Reportáž – Život po zemětřesení (fotoreportáž ze zemětřesení na Haiti)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2009 – Czech press photo, Praha
2010 – Tři ženy v Africe, Staroměstská radnice – Goticko-románské sklepy, Praha
2010 – Tři ženy v Africe, Novoměstská radnice, Praha
2010 – Tři ženy v Africe, radnice Plzeň
2010 – Tři ženy v Africe, Nákupní centrum Plzeň Plaza
2010 – Czech press photo, Staroměstská radnice, Praha

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2009 – Tak trochu jiný zápas, Galerie
2009 – Utopeni v soli, Galerie Portheimka, Praha
2010 – Kam si bůh chodí pro sůl, Archa, Praha
2010 – Kam si bůh chodí pro sůl, Divadlo 29, Pardubice
2010 – Afrika, Týnská literární kavárna, Praha