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František Provazník (*1948) is a Czech origin with British citizenship since 1991. He has been producing professional & art photography for over 25 years, working and exhibiting in the United Kingdom, Europe, as well as in Czech Republic.

Education

'73-74 – Photo-journalist Course, Prague
'74-79 – Graduated from Academy of Art (FAMU), Prague

Present Time

Food, portrait and still life photography

Major clients among the others

Sanoma, Burda, Europress k.s. (Bauer Media), Coty, Lowe GGK, Mark BBDO, JMP-Studio (Czech Republic), Interspar, Albert, Zepter, Vitana, Dr. Oetker, Agropol Food, Nestlé (Orion), Wrigley, Credit Lyonnais Bank Prague, BBC TV, British Telecom, Solid State Logic, Essex Ambulance Service, National Health Service, Oxford University Press, A.A. Knopf (New York) and more Publishing Houses world wide.

One Man Exhibition

1984	The Faces - Playhouse Theatre, Oxford, England
1985	Photographs – Templeton College, Oxford, England
	Assemblage – Untitled Gallery, Sheffield, England
	Aspects of Still Life – Axion Gallery, Cheltenham, England
1986	Still Life – Gardner Centre, Brighton, England
	Still Life – Photo Gallery, Cardiff, England
1996	Fotky - Museum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
2000	Still life - Humpolec, Czech republic
2005	Still life - Malostranská beseda, Prague, Czech Republic
2008	Obraz ve fotografii, Muzeum umění a designu, Benešov, Česká republika
	Obraz ve fotografii, Felix Figura, Praha, Česká republika
2009	Mušle, Ars Pragensia, Praha, Česká republika

Group show

1982	The Third Meaning – Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
	Ten Oxford Artists – Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, Holland
1984	Six Artists – Oxford Polytechnic, Oxford, England
	Sequences – Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, England
	Group Six – Orleans House Gallery, London, England
1985	Sequences – Watershed Gallery, Bristol, England
	Three Citis – Waaggenbouw, Leiden, Holland
	Five Artists – Trinity College, Oxford, England
1987	Flowers – Anne Berthoud Gallery, Cork Street, London, England
	Salon of Contemporary British Photography, Bristol, England
1992	Czech Photography in Exile – Mánes, Prague, Czech Republic
1993	Introducing – Association of Professional Photographers, London, England
1996	Artist´s Saloon – Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
	Kožkyn s.r.o. – Museum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
1999	Leica Gallery - Ambit, Prague, Czech Republic
2000	Artist´s Saloon – Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
2001	Pictures by F. Mrkvičky and still lifes F. Provazníka, Vlašim, Czech Republic
2002	Artist´s Saloon – Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
2006	Food – Malostranská beseda, Prague, Czech Republic
	Artist´s Saloon – Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
2008	Pictorial Still Lives – Muzeum of Art and Design, Benešov, Czech Republic
	Pictorial Still Lives - Felix Figura Galley, Prague, Czech Republic

Work in collections

In Victoria & Albert Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Tate Gallery archive, and world wide in private collections.

Photographs & Articles published in:

Daily Mail, The Spectator, Amateur Photographer, Oxford Mail, The Guardian, Creative Kamera, Art & Artists, Sunday Times, Vanity Fair, Art Line, Time Out, Photography, Oxford Times (England), Revue K (France), Zeit Magazine, Männer Vogue (Germany), De Leidse Post, Eids Dagblad (Holland), Revue Fotografie, Atelier, Blesk – magazine, Respekt, Host (Czech Republic) and a number of specialized magazines.

Special awards

Bronze medal, Olympic Games, Munich, 1972

Titule

Master of Sport

František Provazník Phone: +420 604 940 620 E-mail: f.provaznik@tiscali.cz www.photo-provaznik.cz