'Peter Fitzpatrick: Je toto lokální, nebo národní zvyk?' Exhibition at CCP...

Peter Fitzpatrick spent five months in the city of Prague Czech Republic as an artist, tourist and observer. The characters that he has created in the studio are taken from the streets of everyday Prague.

Instead of taking a camera into the public space Fitzpatrick packed a trusty Tesco A6 Note Book and a pencil to document what he observed.This action was to combat against the increasing abuse a street photographer experiences from their subject or the authorities. On Fitzpatrick's return to the studio, memory and his basic lead scratchings came together to reconstruct a faithful depiction of his subject. As with the nature of photography there were some technical glitches that are rendered in the final images. Like double exposures his memory and notes overlap, diffuse and merge, yet the images retain their photographic truth.

The way Fitzpatrick exhibitied work was original and really effective. He printed his images on blank wooden doors. he did this with UV cured ink jet prints. The doors were then simply put up against the gallery walls. The relationship between the way the prints were exhibited and the concepts and themes present in the images worked really well together.