Photography / Jan Sochor
Photographer and web designer Jan Sochor was born in the Czech Republic but moves between South America and Europe often. Over the past five years he has lived and worked in Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, the Czech Republic. His photographic work ‘focuses on showing and documenting the Latin American continent, the everyday life, social and cultural issues’.
Tagged: Czech Republic, Latin America, photo-realism, portrait, portrait photography, Spain
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R083R70 said | 15 March, 2008
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