A photo is a freeze of time that will never be repeated
Stáhnout obrázek
Petr Kubín was born on 12 April 1962 in Prague to Boris Kubín, a telecommunications scientist, and Vilemína, née Stejskalová. During his childhood in Černošice, he attended People´s School of Art (LŠU) under the guidance of a sculptor who opened his horizons in the visual arts. After finishing primary school, he was accepted to study photography at the Secondary Technical School of Graphic Arts in Hellichova Street in Prague. Here he became close to Viktor Karlík, Vít Brukner and Martin Socha, and together with the Topol brothers they contributed to the samizdat literary and art anthology X (Desítka)/Violit. In November 1979, he and his classmate Gábina Farová were arrested for tearing down red flags and subsequently sentenced to a suspended sentence for rioting, refusing to cooperate with State Security (StB). He later found out that his father had been pressured to cooperate, mainly because of a relative in the West and a brother who was a member of the Wehrmacht, and had been kept as a secret collaborator under the code name Kubr. In 1981, Petr Kubín graduated from secondary school and, after his compulsory military service, joined the Prague Conservation Centre, where he worked as a digger on archaeological excavations and as a photographer from 1983 to 1990. He and his partner Marcela raised five children. The beginning of the November 1989 events found him on an expedition in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. After the revolution, he worked as a professional photographer for the editorial offices of Lidové noviny and Respekt, and since 2000 he ran his own studio. After 2010 he became involved in civic activities in Černošice, where he has lived since childhood. He holds a Certificate of Participation in the Resistance and Resistance against Communism, and has been working as a freelance photographer since 2008.
