Updated Online Portfolio 2017.

The portraits in this section were made on different occasions such as assignments, free projects and journeys. Portraiture is an important part of my work and most of the time I am creating environmental portraits.

Portraits made for clients on assignment.

Images from Prague, the capital and largest city of Czech Republic which is my homebase since many years.

It is estimated that between 1.1 and 1.5 million Jews, Poles, Roma and others were killed in Auschwitz during the Holocaust between 1940-1945. 27 January 2015 is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I visited Auschwitz four times, during the 50th and 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1995 and 2005 and then in 2014 and 2015.

In 1994 I moved from Germany to Prague to study photography at The Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). By accident I found a flat during this time located on the opposite side of the tunnel connecting Karlin and Zizkov in Prague 3. When I started studying there was an ongoing documentary project about Zizkov at my school and with a few fellow students we started to document the area. After almost 20 years I went through all my old negatives, scanned them and made a new edit of the "old" images. "Like many districts of the city, Zizkov today is socioeconomically diverse. It is undergoing a renewal, with many older buildings being reconstructed and restored. New fashionable cafes and restaurants are appearing and property prices are increasing rapidly. The western part of Zizkov is still known for its high concentration of brothels, strip clubs and cheap bars. Zizkov is said to have the highest number of pubs per capita of any city district in Europe, with more than 300." (Wikipedia)

Filmset for the recording of the new music video "V ulickach" by Mario Bihari & Bachtale Apsa. The theme is a blind's couple wedding and the video was recorded with blind and not blind actors.

The island of Crete during the low season in December 2016.

Rudy was born on the 01.01.2017. He is on a mission and wants to make the world a better place - follow him to see how...Images and © by Rudy's best friends and flatmates.

A few hundred people gathered in Prague to protest the EU's migrant policies and against Islam in general, "We do not want Islam in Czech Republic" is the slogan. The rally was attended by members of Polish and German far right groups such as members of the Pegida movement from Dresden.

Following the footsteps of Bohumil Hrabal - who was a famous Czech Writer - in Prague.

Arnost Lustig was a renowned Czech Jewish author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays whose works have often involved the Holocaust. I could work with Arnost Lustig during his visit to South Korea in 2010.

Images of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp made during two visits at the ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the camp (27.01.1945) in January 1995 and January 2005. It is estimated that between 1.1 and 1.5 million Jews, Poles, Roma and others were killed here in the Holocaust between 1940-1945.

Blockade of the building supplies store "Epicenter" in Lviv (Lemberg) during the Revolution in Ukraine. Protests against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych were sparked on 21 November 2013 by the Ukrainian government's decision to suspend preparations for the signing of an association agreement with the European Union that would have increased trade with the EU. Some believe that the U-turn came about as a result of pressure from President Putin of Russia who wants Ukraine to join a customs union with itself, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Russia offered 15 billion dollars of soft loans and reduced price gas to Ukraine at the same time as discussions with the EU were taking place. Commissioned by "Der Spiegel" in February 2014.

I am offering a selection from my Instagram account @rischaard as hand signed prints in this gallery. The print sizes are A4 (21x30) for €60.00 and A3 (29,7x42) for €70.00 plus shipping. All further informations you find when clicking the shopping cart on the left up side. Money generated with this sale will be used to fund the presentation of my longterm project about Roma settlements in Slovakia. #awallrunsthroughit

On 6 June 1992 the village of Miljevina, 64 km southeast of Sarajevo, was shelled and attacked by Serbian paramilitaries. Six year old Elvis, his sister Elvira, their parents and their grandmother had to flee their home. Another 22,500 Muslims, the majority of local population, also fled. The family made its way through the Bosnian mountains to Varazdin in Croatia over 18 days where they found shelter in an abandoned military base that had been turned into a refugee camp. They were to spend the next 3 years here, waiting for the conflict to finish. At this time, Björn Steinz was finishing his civil service, an alternative to military service, in Germany and felt compelled to contact 'Christlicher Friedensdienst' (Christian Peace Service) which sent volunteers to the Balkans. During the winter of 1992 he travelled to Varazdin where he met Elvis and the family for the first time. They lived together for three weeks and Björn produced a photo essay about the refugees' daily life. Some of the images were exhibited in 1993 in Germany to raise money for the refugees. After that, the photographs disappeared into his archive. But the images of little Elvis atop an artillery piece and another of him looking out of a window with his grandmother kept coming back to Björn over the coming years. In the summer of 2016 he received an email from Hana Maass, a Bosnian woman living in San Francisco about his images from Varazdin in 1992. Hana had been a refugee at the camp and remember all the volunteers. She said that they made life possible there. Hana's email was the trigger for Björn to try and find Elvis again. All he knew was Elvis' first name and his grandmother, whom everyone generically called 'Nana' (or grandmother in Bosnian). It had been Nana who had kept everyone's spirits up, cooking endless pots of Bosnian coffee, one of the few things the refugees had and shared with the volunteers. With the help of Radio Free Europe (RFERL) and an appeal for Elvis to get in touch broadcast on Bosnian television, social media and on the RFERL Balkan Service website it took just 12 hours for a message to come back from Elvis Levis Causevic who invited Björn to come and see him in Sarajevo. Five days later, Björn was on a plane descending into the snowy Bosnian capital to meet Elvis for the first time in 25 years. After three years in Varazdin, Elvis' family had emigrated to Germany where they stayed until 1999. They were supposed to emigrate to Australia from Germany but Nana refused and convinced the family to go back to their native land. She had passed away seven years earlier at the age of 78 and had insisted that she be buried in Miljevina, the village they had fled in 1992 which now lies in the autonomous Republika Srpska. Few living Muslims have returned to live there. Elvis is now married to Irma and has two children, Adna (3) and Aldin (1). They live with his sister Elvira and her family in the village of Hadzici, 20 km south of Sarajevo.

Road trip with "U vystřelenýho oka" to the Martin Velisek retrospective exhibition in Pardubice. Martin Velíšek (Duchcov, Czechoslovakia, October 21, 1963) is a popular Czech artist whose work spans the media of glass and canvas, animated film, album covers, book covers, restaurant menus, napkin packaging, TV packaging, photography, sculpture, and interiors (Wiki). Velisek also designed the interior of the famous pub "U vystřelenýho oka" in Zizkov.

Over 31,000 dogs set to visit Leipzig - the biggest dog show in the world. Over 31,000 dogs from 73 nations will come together from 8-12 November 2017 in Leipzig for the world’s most important dog show. In addition to the World Dog Show and German Winner Show the VDH is also organizing a jam-packed programme of fringe events at the Leipzig Trade Fair. Dog lovers will be enthralled by various dog sport events. The Dog Dancing World Championships, the German Agility Championships, an international flyball tournament and so will the European Dog Diving Championships.

Czech president Milos Zeman's during his public "meetings with citizens" visiting the Pilsen Region. Miloš Zeman (born 28 September 1944) is the third and current President of the Czech Republic, in office since 8 March 2013. He announced his candidacy for the 2018 presidential elections which will be held in the Czech Republic on 12–13 January.

Conference of the European anti-migrant parties "Europe of Nations and Freedom" (ENF). Attending were Marie Le Pen from France, Geert Wilders from Holland and Tomio Okamura of the Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) movement from Czech Republic which was hosting the meeting. Prague, the 12th of December 2017

FAMU PHOTOGRAPHY REUNION 2018 // 12th - 14th of January in Praha/Prague.