RIP Pavel Dias

 

Czech photographer Pavel Dias died in Ptague on April 19, 1921. He was 82. Born in Brno on December 9, 1938 he studied photography at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Brno. From the end of the 1950s, he contributed photographs to various magazines, especially Young World, collaborated with film, photographed horses and races, and devoted himself to advertising photography. From 1989 he taught for 20 years at FAMU, from 2005 to 2018 he also taught photography at Tomas Bata University in Zlín. Dias was a still photographer on the 1972 Euro-western short “A Canyon of Gold”.