Jitka Hanzlova

Born 1958 in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, Jitka Hanzlova is currently resident in Essen, Germany. She studied photography at Essen University and has since worked as a photographer on her own projects. She was awarded the Otto Steinert Photography Prize in 1993 and European Photography Prize in 1995 and was shortlisted for The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2000 and 2003. Hanzlova's work on "Rokytnik" depicting the small Czech village where she grew up and her portraits of women in various...See more

Born 1958 in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, Jitka Hanzlova is currently resident in Essen, Germany. She studied photography at Essen University and has since worked as a photographer on her own projects. She was awarded the Otto Steinert Photography Prize in 1993 and European Photography Prize in 1995 and was shortlisted for The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2000 and 2003. Hanzlova's work on "Rokytnik" depicting the small Czech village where she grew up and her portraits of women in various countries in "Female" have won her acclaim in Europe and America. See less