Exhibitions (selection):

2023

Czech Press Photo Praha, Národní muzeum

2023

Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, Learn more

2022

International Woman in Photo Association – Dubaj, Paříž, Tokio, Almeria, Ženeva, Córdoba – The travelling exhibition – IWPA Award 6th Edition (2022), Learn more

2022

Czech Press Photo Praha, Národní muzeum

2022

Tel Aviv, Czech Centre, Blood and tears of Ukraine, Learn more

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 (Czech 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

2023

Czech Press Photo, 3rd prize Reportage

2023

International Photography Awards IPA 2023, Honorable Mention, learn more

2023

Tokyo International Foto Awards 2023 – Gold in editorial/conflict, learn more

2023

Budapest Foto Awards 2023 – Bronze winner – Editorial/conflict. Learn more

2023

World Photo Annual (reFocus Awards) – Photographer of the Year 2023 (Photojournalism). Learn more

2023

Color Photography Awards – Honorable mention (Photojournalism). Learn more

2023

1th Place – BLACK & WHITE PHOTOJOURNALISM SERIES OF THE YEAR 2023 – Monovision. Learn more

2023

LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards 2023, Learn more

2023

2023 AGBU Garbis Papazian Award

2022

Annual Photo Awards 2022 – People Photographer Of The Year 2022, Learn more

2022

2022 – Finalist, LensCulture Black & White Awards 2022. Learn more

2022

3rd place, reportage, Czech Press Photo 2022, Learn more

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, Lens Culture 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

Journalist and photographer. She started as a news reporter and from 2004 to 2018 she ran the People and Earth magazine. She has travelled across Africa, working in dozens of countries from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo. She has visited Afghanistan several times as a reporter. She also got to Somalia, plagued by a long-running war. In 2014, she began covering the war with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. She then focused on the war in Nagorno-Karabakh and has been covering that conflict since 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion. Since 2018, she has been working as a freelance reporter, collaborating with major Czech publishing houses and TV stations. Her photo also appeared on the cover of the American magazine Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2020, she was included in the prestigious Women Photograph database), including the best female photographers from all over the world.

Her profile can also be found on the American All About Photo website. She has been a finalist several times in competitions organized by the prestigious Lens Culture website, and in 2023 she won the Critic`s Choice award. She has won many other Czech and international a­wards

She is the co-author of several documentaries (Tears of the Congo, Latim – Circumcised, Iraqi Women, Women in the Land of the Taliban, Unbroken) and a number of TV reports and ten books. She also lectures at the University of Hradec Kralove. She lives permanently in Prague.

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