BARA PRASILOVA
CZECH REPUBLIC
Czech photographer Bára Prášilová has created a signature style that merges absurd humor, alarming beauty, playfulness, mild cruelty and her persistent passion for perfection. Her visual world consists of imaginary memories of what never happened and explorations of what could have happened if we dropped the habit of drawing our own limits. She often builds her own props, which she later combines with the advantages of digital photography in postproduction. Erasing the borderline between commission photography and fine art, Bára is creating a category of her own. Her exquisite work has been recognized with numerous awards and exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad. Among them: she has been selected one of the Quiksilver ambassadors in 2009, she won the Photographer of the year title awarded by the Academy of Design of the Czech Republic, Czech Grand Design in 2009 and 2011, and in 2014 she became one of the prestigious Hasselblad Masters world competition winners.