Jiří Hanák
Jiri Hanak
Born in former Czechoslovakia in the 1936, he studied and graduated as an actor at the Drama Academy in Brno in 1960. Worked in theatre in several cities, in 70´s he came to Prague and worked there. In 1983, after he was banned from working in theatre, he was granted asylum in UK and moved to London as a political refugee. There he worked mostly as a free lancecontributor and editor with the Czech branch of the BBC World Service, appearedin several TV films and, after the fall of Communism he started working also in the Czech Republic. He´s published short stories, poetry, translations, with the Czech radio he has worked both as an actor, writer and director of his documentary features and dramatisations. A play of his was adapted for TV.
Photography
is to him as one of the means of artistic expression. In 60´s he´s got a prize at a competition
dealing with humour in photography, his photos appeared in a book of a famous Czech writer Pavel
Kohout published in Luzern in 70´s. In 90´s, in London, he took part in a project aimed at covering
changes of Brixton and one of those pictures became a part of a TV documentary on this part of
London. In 2002 he was awarded a prize for artistic excellenceat the annual exhibition Photographic
Prague. He´s exhibited collections of his pictures in UK, Czech Republic and Estonia, his
pictures have appeared in several publications.
Jiri Hanak died at the age of 82 after a serious illness 20th of May 2019.
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