The Oddest and the Best

I’ve never worked with Antonin Kratochvil, the photographer, but I know him slightly and love his work, which is beautiful and disturbing (perhaps an appropriate description of Antonin, too). Outside magazine has just published a profile of Antonin, and the story is as offbeat and entertaining and necessary as his pictures. A few graphs into the piece Chris Anderson, whose work is also amazing and to whom Antonin is a mentor, has this to say: “In what we do, the most important faculties are instinct and intuition. Antonin is the embodiment of instinct. His persona is that of an ogre, but he is frighteningly intelligent, the most astute observer of human behavior I know.” Read the story, see his photos.

Author: Peter Maass

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. In 1983, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, I went to Brussels as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal/Europe. I left the Journal in 1985 to write for The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune, covering NATO and the European Union. In 1987 I moved to Seoul, South Korea, where I wrote primarily for The Washington Post. After three years in Asia I moved to Budapest to cover Eastern Europe and the Balkans. I spent most of 1992 and 1993 covering the war in Bosnia for the Post. View all posts by Peter Maass