Daniel Hušták

• 1990, CZ

Daniel Hušták is a graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava. Since 2013, he has been working as a photography teacher at a Prague high school and besides teaching he works as a freelance photographer and video maker.

His free work is difficult to classify into a specific genre, but is characterized by working with directness, legibility and pure visuality. He has long been searching for ways to visually define the Czech nation and Czech society; the series Czechs to Czechs (2018) is one of the stops in this search. Her younger sister is the "Dovča" series (2019), in which she reflects with similar exaggeration on the theme of a "typically Czech" holiday in Croatia; in the series Czech Land, My Home (2018), dirty billboards and Czech flags, until recently adorning the edges of Czech highways, are interspersed in an endless video loop and accompanied by the Czech national anthem.

His work has been exhibited at the Blatná Photo Festival, the Opava House of Art, the PraguePhoto festival and the Month of Photography in Bratislava. In 2021, he was one of the six authors of the project Jizerská 50 Seen by 6 exhibited at the Leica Gallery Prague, which depicted this legendary race through the eyes of six renowned Czech photographers.