Jitka hanzlova wikipedia

About Jitka Hanzlová

HOMELESS SOULS
By Isabel Tejeda Martin

“Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.” (Milan Kundera)

When looking at the work of the Czech photographer Jitka Hanzlová, the initial challenge lies in relating it to the statement that she made to me in her house in Essen last year and which appears at the start of this essay below the quotations from Julio Cortazar and Milan Kundera.

In my opinion all her series are portraits. Experienced and analysed from that viewpoint, all those looks and expressions, shot in vertical format in distant parts of the world, reflect her statement and have a bearing on the relationship of the individual with the context in which that person lives.

In this sense, Hanzlová endows that context with the rol