David Váňa fotograf

23/07/2020

Göteborg Vs. clouds

08/04/2020

My photo reportage for FORBES about the current situation in Gothenburg. I am very curious how things will turn out with Sweden.

Švédsko se vydalo cestou velmi mírných opatření proti šíření koronaviru. Jako jedna z mála zemí EU nenařídilo zákaz vycházení (je zakázáno jen shromažďování 50 a více osob) a nechalo otevřené obchody i restaurace. Pandemie se v zemi rozšířila a premiér Stefan Lofv...

03/04/2020

Streets of Tokyo 🏢
Looking back at this project, which was a great experience for me, I got motivated to host an exhibition in Göteborg (of course after everything is settled after Corona).

Do you have any suggestions/advice on places or if you can help me share?

Thx 🙏

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27/03/2020

"PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE" master YODA would say. The biggest disadvantage of taking pictures on the negative rolls will be that you see the photos only after developing it. Sometimes I take a picture, I know that the situation / object was exactly as I wanted and then I am terribly curios and I wonder if I really have it there .. In Bolivia I promised myself to leave no space to chance and develop all the exposed rolls in Prague @ Ultralab&Syn​, where I am sure about their job. But then my curiosity was stronger than me and in contrast to Master Yoda's greatest wisdom about that patience think. After a painstaking search across La Paz, I found a studio that looked quite trustworthy. I was punished for not listening to this Jedi master. My negatives looked like someone was welding something and then three huge continuous scratches all along the length of the negatives. Just like the adidas stripes. Right now I'm spending about 4 hours of time on each photo and I think this is not a retouch, but a restoration. This makes me crazy. Loco!

11/03/2020

It is exactly 4 month ago I landed in La Paz excited for going there for one month. I was lucky to get the opportunity to be the first student attending the exchange program between my University and the one in La Paz. Bad timing or not, depends on how you see it, but I landed the very same day as the blockades and barricades started paralizing the city of La Paz. The protests started in response to claims of electoral fraud. So when Evo Morales, the former president of Bolivia, stepped out the office, all the rock'n'roll started. No public transport was operating from the airport and only few taxi drivers knew the way through the barricades. To find a taxi was a mission. Somehow, I managed. I was sitting in the taxi tired from the long trip and lack of oxygen, watching the city which looked like a war zone, a ghost town with no people. However, I could not wait to expore this beautiful country and to meet even more beautifull people.

Of course, nothing turned out as planned and I don't think I was really aware of this from the beginning. Schools were closed, shops were closed, public transport was closed. Not even the famous teleferico was running. There was nothing else for me to do than to go out and document the happenings on the streets of La Paz. And huh, what a shot of adrenaline that was! You could feel the tension in the air everywhere! Almost as much as the tear gas from police. People were chewing coca, clashing with police. You could not talk with anybody. People was angry. Everybody was running and everybody was screaming.

So I was there...shooting Bolivian people full of anger. I was not alone. Many others photographers were there, too. But there was one difference between us: the other ones had tear gas masks, helmets and bullet proof wests. I was there just in my hoodie and my favorite black adidas cap on which it said "Thank you for nothing"...

07/03/2020

05/03/2020

19/09/2018

Together, besides

18/03/2018

,girls,girls