Pavel Dias

Pavel Dias (9 December 1938 – 19 April 2021) was a Czech photographer and university teacher. He was born in Brno and often spent his childhood in Brankovice. After studying at the Secondary school of Art and Design in Brno, where he met his later wife Hilda Misura-Dias, he continued to the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), which he completed in 1964 after a short break.

He worked as a documentary photographer and contributed his photos to several magazines. In addition, he also worked at universities in Prague and Zlín, where he taught photography. He spent part of his life working in film, he devoted himself to advertising photography. In his documentary work, he used simple, easy-to-read compositions. Throughout his life, he worked on various cycles, which he continuously presented at exhibitions and kept adding to. Provided by Wikipedia