Exhibitions (selection):
2021
OYAKO Photo Matsuri Exhibition, Tokyo, Foreign Correspondences’ Club of Japan, view more
2021
Solo Exhibition November 2021, online
2021
Czech Press Photo, Národní muzeum Praha
2020
Coronavirus – Life in an Emergency (World Press Photo, Prague)
2019
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall Prague
2018
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
2017
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
2016
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
Another Life – traveling exhibition of photographers from military missions
(Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic)
2015
In sight of the black flag – PORTHEIMKA Gallery, Prague (together with Jarmila Štuková)
2014
Traveling exhibition The Fate of Woman and The Fate of Woman in Africa
2008 – 2014 Traveling exhibitions, People and Earth magazine – People and
Earth in photography I – IV
2013
Kings of Gerewol – New Town Hall, Prague Afghanistan through the reporters
eyes – Portheimka Gallery, Prague (together with Jarmila Štuková)
Transgender me – photo collection of Albanian Virgins – National Technical
Library, Prague (together with Jarmila Štuková)
2011–2013 – Traveling exhibition Stolen Childhood (together with Jarmila
Štuková, Markéta Kutilová, and Alžběta Jungrová)
2012
Go and kill! Old Town Hall Prague (together with Libya Taylor)
2011
Reconstruction of Logar – joint exhibition of photographers and humanitarian workers – Czernin Palace, Prague
2010
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
Three Women in Africa, Old Town Hall – Gothic-Romanesque Cellars, Prague
(together with Libya Taylor and Jarmila Stukova)
2009
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
2008
Czech Press Photo, Old Town Hall, Prague
Awards
2022
International Women in Photo Association Award 2022 – finalistka Learn more
2021
The Budapest International Foto Awards – bronze, editorial Learn more
2021
Annual Photography Awards – 1st Place Winner, Grand Prize, Photojournalist of the Year 2021 learn more
2021
AAP Magazine #23 Women – Merit Award learn more
2021
Tokyo International Foto Awards – Silver in Editorial/Conflict – learn more
2021
winner, Solo Exhibition November 2021, learn more
2021
Czech Press Photo – UNHCR Award, learn more
2021
finalist, Black&White Photography Awards 2021, learn more
2020
International Women in Photo Association Award, shortlisted, Learn more
2020
Czech Press Photo, UNHCR Award, Learn more
2019
Czech Press Photo, 3rd prize Investigation, video report Defeated, Learn more
2019
Journalism Award – nomination – 2018 CZECH-SLOVAK PUBLIC AWARD (together with Markéta Kutilová), The last battle with ISIS. For more information go here
2018
Nomination for the 1st prize in Czech Press Photo, section: Problems of the Contemporary World Photo gallery here
2018
Czech Press Photo – 1st prize, video – Investigation – The Queen of Caliphate (together with Markéta Kutilová) Learn more
2017
Nomination for the 1st prize, Czech Press Photo, section Problems of the Contemporary World Learn more
2017
The International Film Festival, Stories of the Earth – Unbroken
2016
Czech Press Photo nomination – video Feature: War on the Euphrates (together with Markéta Kutilová) Learn more
2015
Czech Press Photo – UNHCR Award – Refugee in Irbil, Iraq (together with Jarmila Štuková) Learn more
2015
Czech Press Photo – video section – first prize feature for Unbroken (together with Jarmila Štukova, Olga Šilhová, and Markéta Kutilová) Learn more
2014
Journalism Award – nomination for 1st prize in Audiovisual Journalism „Best Reportage“ (report Like a Virgin – with Jarmila Štuková) Learn more
2014
Journalism Award – nomination for the 1st prize in Audiovisual Journalism „Best Reportage“ (report Like a Virgin – together with Jarmila Štuková)
2009
Tears of Congo – awarded at the 2009 Ekofilm, or the International Film Festival of Environment, Natural and Cultural Heritage, and at the 2009 Feminafilm
2008
Czech Press Photo – Honorable Mention – People of Omo, Southern Ethiopia, Everyday Life category. Photo gallery here
About Lenka
The journalist and photographer Lenka Klicperová started her career as a news reporter. From 2004 till 2018 she worked as editor-in-chief of Lidé a Země magazine, one of the oldest periodicals in the Czech Republic which focuses on reportages from abroad.
Klicperová visited a number of African countries and worked in Angola, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, and DR Congo. She also traveled to Afghanistan several times as a journalist. Since 2014 she has covered the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Since 2016 she has regularly contributed stories and photographs to the Reflex weekly magazine. She is a co-author of several documentary films (Tears of Congo, Latim – Circumcised, Iraqi Women, Women in the Land of the Taliban, and Unbroken) and a number of television reportages. Her work appears in the various printed periodicals and on TV and the radio. She also gives talks on her work and experiences. She has received nine awards and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition, both for photographs and video production.
In 2010, Mlada Fronta, a Czech publishing house, released a book called Africa Within Us which Klicperová wrote in collaboration with Olga and Václav Šilha and which became a prequel to Africa Within Us II. Her work in Syria resulted in two books entitled In Sight of the Islamic State I and In Sight of the Islamic State II, which were coauthored by Markéta Kutilová. After their first trip to Syria Klicperová and Kutilová started a public fundraiser called SOS to support schools and health care facilities in the northern Syrian town of Kobani.
In 2018 Klicperová and Kutilová published their third joint book In the War. It tells stories of people affected by the war in Iraq and Syria.
In 2018 Forbes magazine (Czech edition) rated Klicperová among 18 most inspiring people of the year.
In 2019, a book called AK47 was published. It focuses on the dramatic life of the world-famous Czech war photographer Antonín Kratochvíl. Klicperová wrote the text of the book, which she processed from Antonín's narration. The other two books were published again with Markéta Kutilová in 2020 – War is my Fate (focused again on Syria) and Medics on the First Line. The book deals with the struggle of health professionals with the disease COVID –19 in the Czech Republic. In September 2020, war broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh. Lenka Klicperová and Markéta Kutilová quickly moved to the center of fightings. The war in the Caucasus was captured in many reports, but also in the book The last One sets the Village on Fire (Euromedia 2021).
Klicperová cooperates with a number of the Czech media, primarily with the Reflex magazine and the Reporters of Czech Television. She has received more then ten awards and nominations in the Czech Press Photo competition, both for photographs and video production. She also lectures at the University of Hradec Králové.
In 2020 she was included in the prestigious Women Photograph database, which includes the best photographers from around the world. (more info https://www.womenphotograph.com/
Her work from the war in Nagorno – Karabakh was selected as the winner of international photography competition Solo Exhibition November 2021. (https://www.all-about-photo.com/…a-klicperova) You can find her profile on All About Photo https://www.all-about-photo.com/…a-klicperova
In the same year, the Lost War series also became a finalist in the Black & White Photography Awards 2021(https://www.lensculture.com/…ward-winners ) organized by LensCulture, one of the world's most influential photography portals. You can also find her profile on this prestigious website. https://www.lensculture.com/…a-klicperova