Ladislav Vallach
FOTOFO in Photograph Gallery Profil, Prepoštská 4,814 99 Bratislava Vallach started taking pictures at the age of
fifteen,using his father's camera - a Flexaret. Following his unsuccessful
attempts to enroll at the School of Applied Arts, he went in for a senseless
course of study at a gardening school in Piešťany. He graduated in Garden
Architecture, a subject he carefully avoided ever after. His first
photographs appeared in an army periodical during his military service.
Alongside his civil employment at a savings bank, a machine-engineering
plant and a production co-operative dealing in photo-work, he has pursued
photography uninterruptedly. In order to have his pictures published in the
press, he also wrote accompaying reportages. In 1996 he joined the journal
Komárňanské listy as a reporter and that same year passed over to the Press
Agency of the SR (TASR) in Komárno where he still works to this day as a
regional correspondent for southern Slovakia.Gradually, he also began to
take pictures for TASR. The Agency profited by the advantage of a writer and
photographer in one person and sent him out on travels by planes that had a
seat for a newspaperman. He thus made trips to Macedonia, He co-operated over a long period of time with the
periodicals Život, Domino fórum, Slovensko, Új Nö, Žitný Ostrov, made book
illustrations, held two solo exhibitions in Komárno, one in
Rovinka-near-Bratislava, and took part in team exhibits in the Czech
Republic, Germany and Slovakia. He was a member of the Union of Slovak
Photographers. Beside other distinctions, he also won a gold medal at the
Slovak Exhibition of Reportage Photography at the 6th J.M.Petzval Biennials
in Piešťany. At the present time his reportage |