Art photographer Vladimir Gdovin

From Acts to Grandmasters

[03.07.2014 00:00:00] - Three marvelous series of acts of Czech actress Jana Švandová, Markéta Hrubešová and Michaela Kuklová made photographer Vladimir Gdovin famous in 90s. The three issues of Playboy magazine did not spend a lot of time at newsstands. But Gdovin, the playboy himself, headed higher. He was not satisfied with stable income and position as photographer of Czech models and actresses and so he went to New York. He had an atelier on Manhattan for several years and spent the years making photos for prestigious fashion magazines.

A few years ago, he came back to Prague, had a couple of exhibitions and in June 2014 you could´ve met him in Michna´s palace on Kampa. He came there to take some pictures of chess grandmasters during a chess festival ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2014. You can see some of the photos he took there and if you want to remind yourself of the acts of czech actresses, click here.


Hikaru Nakamura and his fiancée Maria de Rosa leaving Michna´s palace.


Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and David Navara during post-mortem of the second game.


The head of ČEZ CHESS TROPHY 2014 Pavel Matocha and grandmaster Ján Markoš.


Currently the fifth player of the world ranking Hikaru Nakamura.

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