Ondrej Szollos

My name is Ondrej Szollos, I am an artist and a photographer living in Prague.
For the past 17 years I have been taking pictures all over the world, in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Cambodia, Thailand, France, USA, Poland, and other places in Europe. In my pictures I try to reproduce the stories behind the images, as well to exhibit the oddities, and strangeness of the lives of people from diverse, marginalized parts of society. My photographs aim at preserving and recreating the events, happenings, and stories that lead to the one specific image that is captured. I am interested in the lives and stories of people from different backgrounds, countries, and cultures, and my pictures try to catch the differences and similarities of people from all over the world. I am interested in the world of those marginalized and excluded, in their daily routine, their free time activities, their customs, and quotidian life style.

For many years I have documented the life of so called “working class heroes” in impoverished places in small towns and villages in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Knowing these people personally I take pictures of their daily life. While these people suffer from poverty, unemployment, and lack of opportunity, th...

2006 -- 2011 Academy of Art Slovakia, Banska Bystrica
Final project under the supervision of Prof. Olga Sommerova

2003 – 2005 Film school of Miroslav Ondricek


1999 – 2003 Graduation, COPTH Prague, subject to the final exams :
English language, Economics, Management, Math