{"id":473,"date":"2014-07-28T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T09:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photonet.hu\/online\/eng\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-07-09T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:06:56","slug":"fedor-gabcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photonet.hu\/online\/eng\/photography\/portrait\/fedor-gabcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedor Gab\u010dan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fedor Gab\u010dan born on July 22, 1940, in a picturesque Slovakian village, J\u00f3k\u00fat (K\u00faty). After the war he moved to R\u00e9vkom\u00e1rom (Komarno) with his widowed father, who was a gendarme commander. Here he married again and there he remained until his death.
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Finished basic school in R\u00e9vkom\u00e1rom and continued his studies in Kassa (Ko\u0161ice) in the Industrial School of Architecture and Surveying (Priemyseln\u00e1 stavebn\u00e1 the zememera\u010dsk\u00e1 \u0161kola), which was completed in 1958.<\/p>\n

After high school graduation he worked for the Institute of Geodesy (Geodetick\u00fd \u00fastav in Bratislava) in Bratislava (Bratislava), where his job was processing of aerial photographs.<\/p>\n

After the military service, he was working in Ostrava mines for 4 years. Meanwhile he did graphics and ceramics as well. This helped him to find the expression of his own in photography, which he dedicated himself since 1964. Initially, the photos were limited to captured the miners’ lives, because this topic was really close. First exhibition took place in 1966.<\/p>\n

From 1966 a printing house was employing him as a photo reproduction chemigrafic and photographer. He prepared albumin-based ofset foils, light-sensitized by chromium salts.<\/p>\n

In the 70s he worked at the advertising agency RAPID as external collaborator. Meanwhile, he was admitted to the Academy of Arts in Film and Television faculty – FAMU (Filmov\u00e1 the Televizn\u00ed fakulta Akademie m\u00fazick\u00fdch um\u011bn\u00ed), in Prague, in 1972, which he successfully completed in 1976. After the regime change in 1989 received the master’s title.<\/p>\n

In 1976-78 he worked for the Czech News Agency (CTK) as a photo reporter in Ostrava, then from the 90s till his retirement he was teaching at the Arts High School in Ostrava (Um\u011bleck\u00e1 St\u0159edn\u00ed \u0161kola Ostrava), where he founded the photography major. His further work was capturing the scenery ruined by years of industrial activity in Ostrava.<\/p>\n

So far, he was not very interested in the archaic procedures of photos. Due to more free time because of his retirement, however, he turned his attention to the more demanding procedures. The most common topics of his photographs are portraits, still lifes, and nude photography also play a role.<\/p>\n

Today, he lectures at the University of Ostrava Faculty of Arts (Fakulta um\u011bn\u00ed Ostravsk\u00e1 Univerzity Ostrav\u011b v) traditional photographic procedures.<\/p>\n

He is also known as a member of the jury in several prestigious international photo competition in photographer circles.<\/p>\n

At present, he lives in Vratimov, Czech Republic, but spends most of his time in R\u00e9vkom\u00e1rom, still in the same place where in his childhood years, a small house with a garden, which was at that time bought by his father and in which he enjoys gardening today. The fig trees and roses in his favorites.<\/p>\n