Karel Schling

Born 29.4.1945 in London

Exibitions:

• KS Pruhon - Prague February 2009
• Markfield Park Cafe – London September 2009
• Ye Old Rose & Crown Pub – London April 2010

He lived and worked in Bohemia up to 1984. He worked in several professions during his lifetime, as a coal miner, an economist, an accountant, an engineer on water pump station, a programmer and currently he works as a mobile caretaker in East London.

He is an amateur photographer. He started to take photos when he was 15 years old and during that time he was trying to capture the world around us. In the last years he has mainly concentrated on taking pictures of different interesting objects which he finds in nature. The collection of photographs that he exhibits was created in the last eight years during nature walks. Most of the snapshots were taken in Epping Forest, one of the last remaining original English beech forests which used to cover whole of England. This forest not only existed during Robin Hood’s time but there are also remains of a Stone Age settlement. We can find many different shapes in such an old forest. Other snapshots were taken in Ireland, Cornwall and Egypt.

The photographs are deliberately left without any title. The aim of those photographs is to stir fantasy and imagination, so it is left to every spectator to decide what he/she sees.