His first foreign exhibition was organised in Bloomington, at the Indiana University. In 1969, he travelled to the United States, where he met Hugh Edwards, the curator of the Art Institute of Chicago who encouraged his artistic endeavours. In the 1960’s, he worked with his medium format 6圆 Flexaret camera and decided to become a photographer under the influence of Edward Steichen’s book and exhibition, The Family of Man (1955). After the war, he studied at a graphic arts secondary school while already taking photographs. With his twin brother, they witnessed the nazi occupation of Prague and the monstrosity of the concentration camps. He was born in 1935 and his way of looking at the world was greatly influenced by his horrendous experience of the Second World War. Jan Saudek became known worldwide in the 1990’s for his erotic photographs fusing photography with the world of painting, calling forth for their creation the atmosphere of an atelier from the dawn of photography, with deck floor and shabby walls, as well as aniline dye photographs.
The retrospective presenting baroquely sultry, hand-coloured sensual nudes and visually rich scenes by Jan Saudek, a rebel of contemporary Czech photography, has been realised in collaboration between the Photo Festival and Kunsthalle Budapest. Hungary’s largest photography event, BUDAPEST PHOTO FESTIVAL, is opening the seventh edition of its event series on 31 March 2023 with an exceptional, even provocative exhibition in KUNSTHALLE BUDAPEST. Jan Saudek, Photography’s Enfant Terrible
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