Karel Cudlín
Karel Cudlín (born 28 June 1960) is a Czech photographer. Career Cudlín was born in Prague and started taking photographs in his teens. Borrowing his father's Exakta and supported by his uncle, a photography enthusiast, Cudlín soon started photographing the Romani people of Žižkov, the suburb where he lived. Cudlín attended a social work school that, combined with a short stint in a low-grade job, provided him with the proletarian credentials needed to join the Fotografia cooperative. The cooperative sent him to a ballroom in the Lucerna Music Bar, Lucerna area where he overcame considerable technical difficulties in photographing young people at night. A third area that he explored was Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Communist Party rituals. After a year at Lidová škola umění, Cudlín was in 1983 admitted to Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, FAMU, which was very free by Czechoslovakian standards of the time. He graduated in 1987, and s ...
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