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Štefan Kesi (1981) was born in Rožňava, Slovakia. Having completed the comprehensive school, he started his first job working with the local museum as a guide, and later on also as a documentalist and the photo archives administrator. He changed his working place seven years afterwards, nevertheless he has remained in a related sphere. Now he works with the Tourist Information Centre in Rožňava as a product manager and a guide, while in 2007 he also worked as a Slovak National Tourism Portal editor. Štefan has been devoted to photography since he was 19. Fascinated by both harmony and contrast of lines, shapes, colours, materials and structures, he is particularly keen on photographing the detail – the detail of virtually anything, especially of the objects in which the threat of destruction is manifested in an intense and ominous way. Apart from the detail, Author’s most-liked themes also include the night photography, but he passionately photographs recesses he comes across, architecture and nature, too. Furthermore, his work covers the theatre and news photography, occasionally published even in a national daily. Štefan Kesi’s photographs have been used on his hometown’s official website as well as the Slovak national tourism website and published in specialised magazines, such as Craft, Art, Design (Remeslo, umenie, dizajn) and Monuments and Museums (Pamiatky a múzeá), and books (Rožňava - a Town with a Prospect, Krásnohorská jaskyňa – Buzgó, Banské mesto Dobšiná and others). He publishes postcards showing the remarkable historical and tourist places of interest of the region, and his large-format photographs depicting the historical and natural sights of the region of Gemer have been displayed at the international tourism fairs. He is engaged in making calendars and other promotional material. Since 2004, Štefan has been participating in the AMFO amateur photography competition. Ever since the following year, he wins prominent positions in the competition advancing him to the regional and national rounds. His photographs have been included in the collections from such creative plain air workshops as Herľany 2005, Rejdová 2006, Spiš 2007, Ľubovňa 2008, and a number of his works have found their place in private collections. Štefan Kesi is a member of the amateur photography advisory board of the Regional Edifying Centre in Košice. Apart from photographing itself, he takes part in organising exhibitions and events related to photography and collects old photographs, postcards and historical photographic equipment. |
