Dušan Kochol

Postcards from Cacti Falls / výstava

Biography

Dušan Kochol is an artist, photographer, curator, and founding director of the contemporary photography festival OFF Bratislava and the photography gallery FOG. Active in the Slovak photographic scene since 2006, he has created numerous photographic series exhibited across Europe, North and South America. In 2016, he received the Photographer of the Year award from the Central European House of Photography in Bratislava in recognition of his contribution to the development and promotion of Slovak photography, and in 2017 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Kochol graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Bratislava, attended photography courses at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the London College of Fashion, and earned his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the Institute of Creative Photography, Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.