Jan Prerovsky

Jan Prerovsky/Photographer - Biography
Born in 1978 in Havirov, Czech Republic. After his family emigrated to Munich, Germany in 1981, he grew up and studied in the Bavarian Capital.
In 1998 he began studying politics at the Ludwig-Maximillian-University Munich. Meanwhile he worked as assistant for several photographers and devoted himself more and more to the work as a photographer.
In the year 2000 he decided to fully focus on the work as photographer and started at Schneider-Press, one of the biggest German press agencies in the field of boulevard photography. Meanwhile working freelance for several Newspapers and agencies like Sueddeutsche Zeitung, dpa, and others.
Besides the portrait and reportage work he ran a photo studio and worked on different projects. One of those, an experimental movie, “Road to Fokstugu” had his premier in Munich’s IMAX Theatre on the 19th July 2004 and was shown afterwards in movie theatres in 16 German Cities including Berlin and Hamburg.
He traveled throughout Europe and overseas.In 2004 he decided to bring his career as boulevard photographer to an end and to move to Prague, Czech Republic for concentrating on his own projects.
2006-2008 He worked for the weekly paper “The Prague Post” whe...

2000, Artografika, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
2004, Untitled, Gallery Nora, Prague, Czech Republic
2004, Untitled, Club Defilee, Prague, Czech Republic
2005, "Ahoj Pavel"- Homeless in Prague, Shopping mall "Andel", Prague, Czech Republic
2006, "Ahoj Pavel"- Homeless in Prague, Kavarna Kolibka, Prague, Czech Republic
2016, BEZDOMOVCI BEZ CENZURY (Homeless uncensored)/"Ahoj Pavel"- Homeless in Prague, Český Centrum Praha, Prague, Czech Republic
2017, FOODPHOTO FESTIVAL, Spinderihallerne, Vejle Danmark