Michael Wellner-Pospíšil Photographer
I’ve been nursed by film. I played in it, I studied it, I made a living from it for years as a director. Nevertheless, today I devote myself to photography. The moving pictures stopped moving for me. And it suits me today.
I have been taking pictures since childhood. I photograph the world around me. There's no other way...
What interests me about photography is not so much capturing reality, but rather how to capture reality in such a way that reality can become an abstraction or a kind of visual puzzle that enriches the viewer's own vision of the world. But in photography I am also interested in people. So from time to time I go into more documentary photography. Sometimes it is called street photography.
Born on February 15, 1955
- Michael Wellner Pospíšil has appeared in numerous Czech films since age three, including The Cassandra Cat (dir. Vojtěch Jasný), The Stolen Airship (dir. Karel Zeman) and more.
- 1972 - 1974 studies photography at the People’s Art School (prof. Ján Šmok)
- 1974 graduates from Jan Neruda Grammar School on Prague’s Hellichova Street
- 1974 -1980 studies directing and screenwriting for documentary and television at FAMU in Prague
- 1980 leaves Bohemia and lives in France, where he works as a director, screenwriter, editor, cameraman (more than sixty short films and series for French and German organizations and television stations), photographer, and journalist
- 1996 publishes a book of memoirs by his father, Ladislav Pospíšil, Under the Sign of Halley’s Comet
- 2000 - 2016 cultural diplomat
- 2000 - 2007 director of the Czech Center in Paris
- 2005 receives the French Order of Arts and Literature
- 2007 - 2009 director of the Czech Center in Sofia
- 2009 - 2012 general director of the network of Czech Centers
- 2013 - 2016 again director of the Czech Center in Paris
- 2016 returns to the Czech Republic and focuses exclusively on photography
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Města, Villes, Cities
- 2011 - Galerie Imprimerie v St. Pol-de-Léon, Francie
- Galerie Millennium, Praha
- 2012 - Galerie Klatovy/Klenová
- Prácheňské muzeum, Písek
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Paris, mon destin
- 2017 - Galerie Klatovy/Klenová
- 2018 - Francouzský institut, Praha
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Paris, Praha, etc...
- 2020 - Leica Gallery, Praha (Paris, etc…)
- Francouzský institut (Praha, etc…)
- Galerie G4, Cheb (Paris, Praha, etc…)
- 2021 - Muzeum a Pojizerská galerie Semily
- 2020 - Paris, Praha, etc…, published by KANT - Karel Kerlický, 150 pages
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Contact
Michael W. PospíšilEmail: karel.may2@gmail.com
Phone: +420 608 167 353