Background
Petr Sirotek was born on May 13, 1946, in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts
Petr Sirotek was born on May 13, 1946, in Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic.
Petr Sirotek received a diploma from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1970).
A freelance photographer since 1972, Petr Sirotek has also been director of photography at Kratky Film Prague since 1970.
Petr Sirotek sees not only unusual objects that might catch an observant eye but also – and primarily – a part of the lives of the people who surround themselves with them. For him, still life is not the dead world of things discarded or abandoned, but a means of supplementing the world of the living and thus anchoring our memories.
The travel photographs of Nepal date from Sirotek‘s visit to that country in 1973, when he spent six months with a mountaineering expedition to the Himalayas as photographer and cameraman. His photographs brilliantly capture the everyday lives of the local people, both in the towns and in the extreme conditions of the countryside.
Petr Sirotek became a member of the Union of Czech Creative Artists in 1970.