Bara Prasilova is a Czech fine art photographer based in Prague.  Either when working for a client or doing her own projects she always follows her particular style, erasing the borderline between a commission photography and fine art. Applying her personal perspective, Bara creates a category for her own.

What I love about her work is that she shows us her inner world in a very surreal way. As she states on her website, her memory plays a key role in her work, combining of reality and fiction with her sense of absurdity. Her visual world consists of imaginary memories of what never happened and explorations of what could have happened if we dropped the habits of drawing our own limits.

“Through my photographs, I have been trying to understand human relationships and connections: long hair symbolises the invisible strings we use to strap somebody to us or, perhaps, the opposite, to let somebody loose. They are the threads of our emotions, worries and fears that we are afraid to loosen like hair.” (via  BritishJournalOfPhotografy )

Every shot is planned with military precision; Bara and her stylist discuss concepts and details and everything is carefully sketched and planned before shooting. The shots often take several hours to be prepared; Prasilova even makes some of the props herself.

Evolve, is a series fraught with emotion that won Prasilova the Hasselblad Masters 2014 in the fashion and beauty category. The series examines the delicate, often fragile threads that bind human beings to one another.

Text by Brunilda C