We have been chasing art but the true nature of things eludes us.
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Vladimír Kunc was born on the 3rd of October in Havlíčkův Brod. The family lived in the neigbourhood of Dolík, close to the nearby Petrkov where his parents worked in a co-op farm. He went to elementary school in Havlíčkův Brod, he got his land-surveyor education at Secondary Technical School of Land Surveying in Prague - Hrdlořezy; after graduation, he went to study geodesy and cartography at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical Unversity. At that time, he already devoted a lot of time to amateur filming and photography, he participated at exhibitions and in contests where he won some acclaim. After his one year of compulsory army service, he got a job at the Cadastral Office in Havlíčkův Brod. In the second half of the 1980’s, he became a professional photographer when he got employed by the cultural centre in Havlíčkův Brod. He collaborated with the local press, he was a member of a photographers’ group, Oči (Eyes). In his two films, Čas očekávání (Time of Expectations) and Fragmenty revoluce (Fragments of Revolution), he caught on film how the Velvet Revolution proceeded in Havlíčkův Brod. He built a video studio, he produced regional news clips for the Nova and Prima TV stations and later, he established his own photography and film company. His long term topics are Šumava, Czech Highlands and his native Havlíčkův Brod, he published several books featuring his photographs.
