14 August 1943, Sienkiewiczowka, the Ukraine
1947 |
His mother (a Ukrainian) and father (a Czech from the community in Volhynia (a province, now part of the Ukraine, with a Czech minority) took the opportunity to emigrate after WW II to the village of Mlade Buky in the Giant Mountains of north Bohemia, not far from Holomicek's present home, Janske Lazne Of five children, two elder brothers died, Bohdan stayed healthy with sport, dance, and acting, he attended school in Mlade Buky. |
1956 |
In his eighth year of school he received a Soviet made Smena camera for Christmas |
1958 |
Made his first photographs, remained self taught |
1960 |
Trained as an electrician in Porid, near Trutnov, north Bohemia Worked in tlie local electric plant, except when doing his national military service, 1963 - 65, till 1968 |
1966 |
Began to photograph more intensively |
1968-69 |
Employed in the Trutnov Museum |
1969 |
First exhibition of photographs |
1969-71 |
Employed as a fitter in the Geoindustria factory in Tuchlovice, near Kladno, central Bohemia |
1971-95 |
Employed as a maintenance man in the Central Heating Plant, Janske Lazne |
1974 |
Got to know Vaclav and Olga Havel in their country house in Hradecek, near Trutnov and Janske Lazne |
1993 |
Participated in an international photography workshop Bratislaval-Basel-Kladno, which took place in Kladno, central Bohemia |
1995 |
He went free - lance. A book of his photographs, in conjunction with an exhibition in the Archa Theater, Prague, was published by Torst |
2000 |
Bohdan Holomicek by Antonin Dufek, Published by TORST, edittion FOTOTORST |
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