Stepan Jilek

I am photographer and wanderer. I was born and raised in small town Polička (Czech Rep.) in the company of many siblings on secluded Babka. I attended an art discipline at the art school of Bohuslav Martinů in Polička. Thanks to my older brother, I soon started to travel. I graduated from programs focusing on design at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno. I bought my first camera Minolta XG9 in 2004 . I spent a semester at the Winchester School of Art in England. I made many trips from Jerusalem, where I came by hitchhiking to the Congo, where I worked as a volunteer at the orphanage. I am designer and freelance photographer spread between Highlands and Brno nowadays.
I won a Photo Festival Moravska Trebova photographic competition and Trafo Gallery Open Call.

1999 – 2004: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRNO, FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, SPECIALIZATION: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN. GRADUATED 2004
2003 – STUDY ABROAD AT KOŠICE COLLEGE OF ART, SLOVAKIA.
2004 – 2006: TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRNO, FACULTY OF ART, SPECIALISATION: PRODUCT DESIGN. GRADUATED 2006
2005 – STUDY AT SCULPTURE STUDIO AT THE WINCHESTER SCHOOL OF ART, U.K.

PHOTO EXHIBITION
2010 – GALERIE PŮDA (CZECH REPUBLIC)
2010 – GALERIE SPACE 60 (CZECH REPUBLIC)
2013 - PHOTO FESTIVAL MORAVSKÁ TŘEBOVÁ (CZECH REPUBLIC)
2013 - GALLERY PLEVEL – ROAD (CZECH REPUBLIC)
2014 – GALLERY CHAOS – ROAD (CZECH REPUBLIC)
2014 – TRAFO GALLERY – OUT OF SEASON (CZECH REPUBLIC) http://jdem.cz/b8fay5
2015 - PHOTOFESTIVAL MORAVSKÁ TŘEBOVÁ - OUT OF SEASON - http://jdem.cz/b8faz3