The White Still Life

Miroslav Sychra is Czech photographer, former Czechoslovak politician, after the Velvet Revolution a member of the House of Peoples and the House of Peoples of the Federal Assembly for the Civic Forum, later for the ODS . In the years 1965-1970 he studied at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Brno with professor KO Hrubý. He focused on photographing landscapes and people in Wallachia and Slovakia, and this is how his first exhibition in Brno was oriented. From 1971 he worked as a photographer at the Klement Gottwald New Ironworks in Ostrava. While working, he began to study FAMU externally , majoring in art photography. At that time he began to devote himself to black and white compositions. In 1975 he left for Prague and continued his studies at FAMU as a full-time student. He married in 1977 and moved back to Svitavy. He graduated from FAMU in 1978 and began working as a freelance artist. He processed promotional images, company catalogs and large-scale interior photographs. In addition, he had several exhibitions of his own. [2]In 1990, he presented himself professionally as a professional photographer, living in Svitavy . In January 1990, as part of the co-optation process, he sat in the Federal Assembly after the Velvet Revolution as a non-partisan deputy, or deputy for OF, to the Czech part of the House of Peoples (constituency no. 44 - Svitavy , East Bohemian Region). In the 1990 elections, he joined the House of Commons, and in 1991, after the dissolution of the Civic Forum, he sat in the ODS parliamentary club. He remained in the Federal Assembly until the 1992 elections .