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Linda Zhengová is a Czech photographer and writer currently based in the Netherlands. In 2019, she graduated with MA in Media Studies (specialization in Film and Photographic Studies) at Leiden University with distinction (cum laude). Recently, she finished her Photography BA at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Zhengová uses the medium of photography to challenge the existing boundaries and taboos surrounding the themes of gender, sexuality, and trauma. She has been selected as a GUP New 2021 and Fresh Eyes 2020 talent. Her previous collaborative publication with Alex Blanco (Nothing will be the Same) was nominated for the Zilveren Camera Storytelling Prize.
At the moment, she is editorially contributing to GUP Magazine, EEP Berlin, and Discarded Magazine. She is also the curator of XXX a new section of Discarded Magazine showcasing the vision of contemporary erotic photography.
Linda shoots pictures for about nine years and her fields are both documentary and fiction photography. To make a clear specification of her photographic work is difficult as it highly depends upon how we understand reality and where is the border when we start to define artificial constructions. Overall, she uses the medium to challenge the existing boundaries and taboos surrounding the themes of gender, sexuality, and trauma. Highlighted with saturated colours and darkness, her imagery strives to trigger a transformation in the viewer through an aesthetic experience.
2019, Korzo Theater, Den Haag (NL) – Up & Coming Choreographers, Produced by Nederlands Dans Theater and Korzo Theater
2015, Pilsner House, Brussels (BE) – Fairytales
2022, The Body, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021, Survival Open Call Exhibition, Ctypemag Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2020, GUP New Exhibition and Book Launch, Kahmann Gallery, project Showering with Glasses (2018), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020, Fresh Eyes Fair, Gashouder Westergas, project Catharsis (2019-2020), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2020, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL) - Graduation Show, project Catharsis (2019-2020)
2020, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (SRB) –World Biennial of Student Photography, project Showering with Glasses (2018)
2019, Helena van Doeverenplantsoen, Den Haag (NL) – Forgetful Number
2018, Kulturni Centar LAB, Novi Sad (SRB) – Forgetful Number
2014, Labe Tour (CZ) – Museum of the City of Ústí nad Labe and Jesuit Church, Litoměřice
2021, OFF Bratislava (SK), 5-19 November
2021, Fotobok Festival, Oslo (NO) - Representation and Beyond, Fotogalleriet / 19-22 August (temporary exhibition)
2021, Charta Festival, Rome (IT) - presentation of Yogurt Magazine, 17-25 July
Kassel Dummy Award 22 shortlist (Catharsis)
ctypemag Survival Open Call Shortlist (Catharsis)
2021 Young Portfolio shortlist, Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
De Zilveren Camera shortlist for Storytelling Prize of 2020 (Nothing will be the Same)
GUP New Talent 2021 (Showering with Glasses)
Fresh Eyes Talent 2020 (Catharsis)
XXX (upcoming 2022), Discarded Magazine, OMFF
Source (2021), Issue 106, review of Catharsis
Ones to Watch (2021), British Journal of Photography, review of Catharsis
MOJO Flavour (2021), Yogurt Magazine, featured image from the project Nothing will be the Same, Rome, Italy
Catharsis (2021), Photobook, self-published in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
GUP New (2021), an annual publication featuring the best 100 emerging photography talents based in the Netherlands, X Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nothing will be the Same (2020), Zine, self-published in collaboration with Zoopark Publishing in Berlin, Germany
Fresh Eyes (2020), Photobook, an annual publication featuring the best 100 emerging photography talents from Europe, X Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma: An Interpretational Analysis of Imagery Made by Joel Meyerowitz, Kazuma Obara, Roger Ballen, and Marta Zgierska (2019), Bachelor's thesis, Academic Publication, The Hague, Netherlands
A Resistance of Normality Through Imagery: Queer Aesthetics and Contemporary Queer Photography (2019), Master's Thesis, Academic Publication, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Eiii Zine (2021), On Motherhood, Femininity and Female Friendships
Bildersturm (2021), Catharsis
British Journal of Photography (2021), Ten photobooks by emerging photographers to take note of, article by Hannah Abel-Hirsch and Marigold Warner, Catharsis
Mirrored Society (2021), Interview with Julian Lucas
Der Greif (2021), Catharsis (Guest Room: Michael Mack and Sohrab Hura's Selection)
Fotonoviny (2021), The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma & Catharsis, Book Review by Kvet Nguyen, Issue 55 (print)
Der Greif (2021), KULISHEK (Guest Room: Lucy Pike's Selection)
PH Museum (2021), Catharsis (Featured Story)
Tique (2021), The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma
Kajet Journal (2021), essay Photography: A Facilitator of a Czech Queer Utopia?, featuring series Showering with Glasses
Fresh Eyes (2020), text by Patrycja Rozwora, Catharsis
Discarded Magazine (2020), interview with Santolo Felaco, Catharsis
Artibooks (2020), interview with Alex Blanco and Linda Zhengová, Nothing will be the Same
Interview with Ester Kneidlová (2020), Catharsis
KABK (2020), Catharsis
Discarded Magazine (2020), Catharsis
Stayathome.photography (2020), Nothing will be the Same
Bohemian Taboo is a platform designed to support education, personal development, contemporary art, queer and other alternative communities, biohacking, research, aesthetic medicine, counseling, provocative events, assistance to disadvantaged groups and all other possible, so far little known, unsupported, tabooed or unjustly censored activities that overlap into the field of personal intimacy, sexuality and eroticism - erotic art and sexual wellbeing, i.e. what we call the development of erotic intelligence.
