Rokytnik

Jitka Hanzlova
Rokytnik

Photographs: Jitka Hanzlova

Text: Lalie Nicolas & Birgitt Bischof

Publisher: Centre de la Photographie de Lectoure

32 pages

Pictures: 14

Year: 1995

Price: 90 €

Comments: Softcover. First edition, 1995. Limited edition of 500 copies. Text in french. Like new . Rare catalogue published two years before the regular edition listed in the Parr & Badger vol 2 p 85.

Rare catalogue from 1995, featuring 14 images from Jitka Hanzlova's Rokytnik body of work that in 1997 formed the photobook of the same name as featured in Parr/Badger Photobook History volume II.

"After Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution in 1990, Jitka Hanzlová was able to return from a period of long exile to her tiny home village of Rokytnik, in Northern Bohemia. Her extraordinary suite of colour photographs chronicle a tight community, still living close to the land. Bathed in a brilliant, techni-coloured light, these images capture a life rooted in a particular place and lived at a different pace. 'I discovered the tension of slowness and was fascinated by people.embedded in their surroundings,' she says. In Rokytník, Hanzlová rediscovered an ancient way of life whose harsh, sometimes brutal realities, are offset by moments of deep beauty and surreal poetry."