Open Theme nominee

The project is the third part of the literary trilogy (after Macha and Andersen, see http://www.vladimirkysela.com/en/2468-2/ ). It is dedicated to Antoine de Saint Exupery. Individual images represent Landscapes of the Mind, which Exupery put into his books. Exupery was a sensitive person, divided between his rich spiritual world, the world of pilots and the reality of the experiences of the Second World War and the emerging globalization.
All my projects are an attempt at a possible writer's view through the camera - how his photographs would look like if he would shoot as he wrote. Technically, this is always a mix of several shots - static and ICM.

“I like stories, I am fascinated by the talents and skills of writers but also of music composers, painters, and architects. I am fascinated by the ability of actors and musicians to interpret given works. But do not look for snapshots or documentaries of a scene in my pictures, rather for an echo of stories embedded in interwoven layers that are both real and abstract in the manner of a writer embedding individual scenes in the pages of their book.”

Since 2017 Vladimir Kysela is a member of the Czech Association of Professional Photographers, APF, since 2019 he is QEP – certified European photographer as well. His projects based on literary and painting stimuli (Karel Hynek Macha, Hans Christian Andersen and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, César Manrique, William Turner) were awarded at major international competitions. He regularly exhibits his works in galleries in the Czech Republic and abroad.