Alžbeta Jungrová

Alžběta Jungrová (1978) is a prominent Czech photographer and a founding member of the 400 ASA photo association. She has been interested in photography all her life and studied applied photography at the Secondary Technical School of Graphics in Prague. She spent 2000–2002 living and working in the United States and London. The main body of her work consists of reportage and documentary photography. She has traveled all over the world in order to document poverty, events in war-torn countries, and other social and political crises. She has also explored topics such as drug-related crime and child labor. This part of her work has earned her numerous awards at home and abroad. Today, however, she is increasingly focused on fine art photography. Her primary interest in human stories and emotions remains, but her images also focus on people’s physical and mental existence. She frequently explores the fragile nature of people’s presence, which is fragmented into gestures, silhouettes, and expressions and yet remains profoundly felt. Regardless of genre, she approaches her work with a distinctive artistic sensibility that transcends traditional reportage. In her artistic projects, she often experiments with printing techniques and materials, thus underscoring the distinctive, artistic quality of her images. Alžběta Jungrová has participated in exhibitions abroad (Saatchi Gallery in London, Czech Cultural Centre in Tel Aviv) and in the Czech Republic, where she has shown her fine art creations at I Believe (Old Laundry Room, General University Hospital, Prague, 2023), Burlesque! (National Gallery Prague, 2019), and Blue Light Tonite (DOX Center for Contemporary Art, 2011).