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Leo Stehlik
3rd May 2012, 02:17 PM
Having the first year of the exhibition at the Chotebor castle behind us, it is now a good time to start planning for the 2013 exhibition.

Same as last year, all FADU friends are invited to take part at the exhibition in 2013 as well!

The exhibition will take place between March 22nd and May 27th 2013 (end date to be confirmed later on) at the Chotebor Castle, Chotebor.

The opening night of the exhibition is Thursday 21st March 2013, and it will take place at the Chotebor Castle from 5.00 pm. There will be an annual gathering of our photo club during the weekend of 23rd and 25th March 2013 in the small village of Bilek nearby. We plan to do some photo outings to the beautiful area of river Doubravka near Chotebor.


Submitting your prints:
You can submit up to three unmounted prints (a series or single prints) of any format, with the image size between 10x12 centimeters up to 26x36 centimeters. For square format, the maximum size we can accommodate is 36x36 centimeters.

All submitted prints must have at least 2 centimeters border (black or white) to allow convenient mounting and framing. Backing sheets are acceptable and they (as well) must have at least 2 centimeters plain border.

All prints will be displayed unframed, behind 50x40cm white mount card, with no border between the image and the mount card.

The subject matter is open, however please remember the prints will be on public display. Please consider to submit a set of 4 related images, as we will do our best to display all 4 images you submit for this exhibition.

Images must be printed from a negative or positive, colour or monochrome, exposed in a film camera.

For alternative / historic printing techniques, we allow "making a large format negative" up to the size of 8x10" using the digital way, such as scanning and printing any original negative exposed in a film camera of any format (135, 120, 4x5", 5x7"). Again, please note this is only allowed for alternative techniques.

Any inkjet, digital, computer manipulated, and printed images will not be accepted.

Paper type and finish of any choice. Toning and other treatments welcome.

On the back of each print please write your name, full postal address and the name of the print. We recommend to use a soft 4B pencil, to avoid damaging the surface of the print.

The entry fee for the exhibition is £10. The fee is payable via paypal to Leo Stehlik (lstehlik@51nls.co.uk), alternatively using a sterling cheque payable to L. Stehlik (UK only). The fee does not include return postage. If you would like to have your prints returned, please contact me via email, and we will agree how we do this later on when the exhibition will close. Prints not required to be returned will be destroyed.

All FADU friends who do want to participate in this exhibition, please post here and send me an email to confirm your interest, and I will email you back the postal address for submitting your prints.

The deadline for submitting prints for the exhibition is 31st January 2013.

If you are interested in participating at the opening of the exhibition and / or for the weekend, please email me and I will send you the details how to best get to Chotebor, and how and where to book your accomodation. For your consideration, an EasyJet flight from Gatwick to Prague is typically between £100 - £150 one way, or Stansted to Brno £50 - £100 one way; local trains to Chotebor around £30 one way, and accomodation around £40 per day. Rental cars available at airports.

In case of any questions please email me at photography@leostehlik.co.uk, and I will do my best to respond to you as soon as I can.

Leo Stehlik
11th November 2012, 12:00 AM
update:

The exhibition will run from March 22nd and May 5th 2013 at the Chotebor Castle, Chotebor.
The opening will take place on Thursday 21st March 2013 at the Chotebor Castle.

Leo Stehlik
25th January 2013, 11:19 PM
Just a friendly reminder to all of you who would like to participate in Chotebor Castle exhibition in 2013, I will need to receive you submissions latest by first week in February.

Having said that, all of those who submitted prints for Chotebor Castle 2012, and whose prints we've still got in our archives, options are we can send you your prints back, or we can use them for this year's exhibition(s) (yes, we do plan two exhibitions this year in two different locations) again.

More details via my email address photography@leostehlik.co.uk

Regards
Leo

Leo Stehlik
24th March 2013, 12:01 AM
No video from the opening yet, but at least a teaser from afuk.cz members visit to see the exhibition earlier today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umRW7nMoicc

Barry
24th March 2013, 09:09 AM
Wow what a venue! Thanks for posting the link Leo I'm sorry I could not make it to the opening.

MartyNL
25th March 2013, 07:51 AM
Looks great Leo!

B&W Neil
25th March 2013, 11:02 AM
It looks very good again Leo and I wish you all a good exhibition and much merriment. Hopefully I will manage to get organised one year and make it over to join you.

I look forward to seeing the exhibition video in due course.

Neil.

Leo Stehlik
25th March 2013, 11:23 PM
set of images from the opening courtesy of Milos Mraz in the following website.

http://www.afuk.cz/vernisaz-afuku-2013-ocima-milose-mraze/

Leo Stehlik
25th March 2013, 11:28 PM
Barry, Neil, it would be great to have you at the opening.

That said, there will be more exhibitions comming this year, the next one starts on 24th May and will take place at Zirovnice Castle.

I hope to post more information here on FADU, and all friends of FADU are invited to participate.

ivanbpalli
26th March 2013, 10:21 AM
Thanks for the video and images, Leo, the exhibition looks great.

Ivan

Leo Stehlik
27th May 2013, 01:23 PM
Just to let you all know, we have opened our exhibition at Zirovnice Castle on Friday 24th, and the exhibition is now open for public until 30th June.

David S. Allen, Ivan B. Palli and Neil Souch have their work exhibited there.

Hopefully, we will have more FADU friends joining our exhibitions in the future. We plan another two exhibitions for this autumn and winter. If all goes well, we would like to do one or two in the UK as well.

Some photos from the opening hopefully to be available at some point soon.

Leo Stehlik
27th May 2013, 01:41 PM
one of the wet plate collodion we did on Saturday in front of the Zirovnice Castle entrance. From right to left me, my wife Natalie, Ondko and Mira (whom Barry and Neil have met earlier this year at our catch up in Bovey Trace's Riverside Inn).

B&W Neil
27th May 2013, 02:50 PM
Thanks for the update Leo - love the wet plate collodion - it makes you all look very retro :-)

Neil.

Leo Stehlik
27th May 2013, 08:31 PM
Thanks Neil. Wet plate process was a lot of fun. We did 6 plates in about 2 hours, group photos with random visitors, we surprised them by being able to show them "the print" within few minites after exposing the plate :)

B&W Neil
28th May 2013, 09:20 AM
Thanks Neil. Wet plate process was a lot of fun. We did 6 plates in about 2 hours, group photos with random visitors, we surprised them by being able to show them "the print" within few minites after exposing the plate :)

Hi Leo,

That sounds like a lot of fun - I look forward to hearing more on this, and perhaps seeing a few examples, next time we meet up.

Neil.

Leo Stehlik
29th July 2013, 05:12 PM
I am plased to announce that the second exhibition in Zirovnice was a major success. We had to extend it by a month - the exhibition did run from 24th May until Friday 26th July.

3.500+ visitors came to see our group's work (www.afuk.cz), including the work of the following FADU friends:

D S Allen
Ivan B Palli
Neil Souch

That said, with the 2+ years background and having organized 4+ exhibitions, I am now in the process of planning for next year - and I thought it would be a good idea to organize a joint FADU/AFUK exhibition in the UK (hints and tips for friendly galleries anywhere in the UK welcome).

More detailed info later on this year, subject to interest of FADU friends to exhibit their photographs?

B&W Neil
30th July 2013, 04:05 PM
Leo,

I hope you can make it to London in August and we can talk about this - all very interesting and encouraging.

Neil.

ivanbpalli
9th August 2013, 03:53 PM
That's great news, Leo. I'll be interested in participating in any future exhibitions, keep us posted, please!

Ivan

Terry S
24th August 2013, 12:38 PM
Bookmarking as I too may be interested in exhibiting.

Terry S

Barry
22nd December 2013, 12:32 PM
Leo,

Will there be a 2014 exhibition?

Dave Hall
23rd December 2013, 01:41 PM
Leo.
Regards
Dave Hall

I am also very interested in a 2014 exhibition

Leo Stehlik
29th December 2013, 08:26 PM
Dave and all,

thank you very much for the 2014 exhibition.

The good news is there will be one of some sort.
Not sure it it will be (once again) the kind of 35+ people exhibit 200+ prints. It may be much smaller scale, maybe wrapped around a specific theme - I have not made up my mind yet, the only thing I know for sure is that I've run out of steam for organizing LARGE exhibitions.

I will let you all know here what I am up to in 2014, but one thing I can say, there will be an exhibition at some point, and I will keep you posted as soon as I know more details.