Different Beauty by David Tesinsky

Join us for a book launch with 

David Tesinsky on his new book DIFFERENT BEAUTY.

David Tesinsky (*1990, Prague)

Independent freelance photographer of the people’s stories, environmental, subcultural, social-documentary and fine art.

Using photography as a tool to open eyes and kill stereotypes

Different Beauty has 13 chapters of my best, worst and the craziest stories from the travels for controversy and unbelievable people’s stories all around the world.

I have been covering:

• Revolutionary youth in Iran
• Women warriors in the war-zone in Ukraine
• Gang related problems in Guatemala
• Alcoholism in Greenland
• Transgender and women’s “bubble” in Pakistan
• Life of Japanese businessmen
• Ghetto life in Jamaica, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Philippines
• Entire families living in the cemetery in Philippines
• Hard-working kids in Ghana
• Serial killer’s portraits in Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Exorcism in Ethiopia
• Rap is our religion – daily street life of the rappers in Detroit, Brooklyn, Bronx, NYC and Baltimore
• Victims of the wilful fires in Amazonia, Brazil
• Street life of the living legends of roots reggae in Jamaica
• Satan church in Czech Republic
• Long-term project about the drug addicts in Prague and the same subject also in Victoria, Canada
• “Dictator or Gay?” about the illegal LGBTQ movement in Belarus
• Slum life in India, Nepal, Thailand, Japan and Cambodia
• “Before Night Falls” about the very first transvestite in Cuba

Chapters in the book:

– The Man-machine and the king of the slum – lost in Japan with a camera around my neck

– Rap is our religion or how I founded one rap tradition in New York

– Dream visit to Jamaica where it is difficult to find a real rasta

– Slums in India and Nepal

– Ukrainian killers sentenced for life in Kharkiv‘s prisons

– Revolutionary youth in Iran, love in Tehran and my stupid risking

– Women in the war-zone in Donbas

– Absurd American road trip and the initiating Texas Alcohol Massacre

– Burnt Amazon, Ayahuasca and Unexpected Discovery in the Family of the Huni Kuin tribe

– Overworked children, ghettos and former racist Josef in Ghana, Africa during a lockdown

– Exorcism in Ethiopia and a bloody welcome to Africa

I’ve had solo exhibitions in Seoul, Tokyo, Dakar, Berlin, Munich, Dresden, Sofia, Prague, Belgrade, Brussels etc. and participated at group exhibitions and festivals all over Europe, USA, Israel, Canada and some more in about 85 events in total.

My pictures appeared in f.e.: The Guardian, VICE, Le Monde, VANITY FAIR, The Huff Post, Stern, Spiegel, La Repubblica, The Sun, Greenpeace, The Times.