DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Tomas Micek Illustrator & Author

Tomáš Míček was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. After receiving a degree in physical geography, he fled the regime in his homeland for Austria. There he pursued his dream of photographing the natural world, especially wild horses, volcanoes, trees, flowers and other natural phenomena, in addition to people. His images have been published in magazines such as GEO, Stern, Vogue, L’Europeo and Observer, and he is a prolific author of photography books and calendars. He has published about thirty books in eleven languages.