(*1. 2. 1961, Náchod) Photographer. Pinkava studied artistic photography at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (1981–1986). He is a co-founder of the Prague City Gallery’s Photography Centre. From 2005 to 2007 he headed the photography studio at the Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. He has contributed to group exhibitions since the late 1980s, and has displayed his works at solo exhibitions since 1990. His photographs are represented in the collections of numerous important institutions in the Czech Republic and abroad, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), the Maison Européene de la Photographie (Paris), the National Gallery (Prague), the Museum of Art (Olomouc), and the Moravian Gallery (Brno). In 2004 Prague’s Rudolfinum gallery held a major retrospective of Pinkava’s work entitled Heroes (including a catalogue of the same name).