Hannah Rosales Reviews Pavel Banka

Pavel Banka is a contemporary photographer from Prague, who graduated from the Czech Technical University in 1963. He began his career of photography in the seventies after he left his job of research. "He initially collaborated externally with the journals Home, Housing, ČS architect etc., and since the early nineties he has been working exclusively on free creation." His work began emerging in several major galleries in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. He also worked as a photography professor and co-founded the Prague House of Photography.

The exhibition I will be discussing of his is called infinity. In this exhibition, he takes black and white and mono-chromatic photographs of landscapes. Most of these photographs created a blurred effect. This aspect of blurriness strongly depicts the idea of infinity. In many of these photographs, the blurriness creates this illusion that the landscape doesn't have an ending. It just keeps going.

While the photograph of the forest creates a blurriness effect to depict the never ending scene, the photograph of the birds and sky show the continuousness.