Lukáš Houdek was born in 1984 in a Czech labor family that brought him up in a four-room prefab flat in Stříbro (Western Bohemia). There he graduated in the eight-year grammar school.
He took his degree in Romani studies at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts.
He focuses mostly on the humanistic and documentary photography. He reports long-term on the life of the Roma in different European localities. In 2009 and 2010 he was reporting on the life and customs of the Doms, the “ancestors” of Roma in India.
He cooperates with several magazines. He is the close coworker of the Romano voďi journal and the internet news server www.romea.cz. Since 2009 he works as an editor of Romano voďori journal for the multicultural youth.
In 2008 Lukáš Houdek passed the four-month GLEN residency in MYSA Association in Nairobi, Kenya. There he tough young students from slum to photojournalism.
This year he took part in documenting of the situation of Roma in Kosovo. He regularly wrote articles and interviews for www.romea.cz. You can read these texts in the rubrics Roma in Kosovo - 12 years after the war.
Lukáš Houdek admires French fries with the mayonnaise. On the other hand he dislikes stupidity, discrimination, beer and the dill sauce.
REALIZED EXHIBITIONS
2012
DOX Prague (OPEN CALL - collective exhibition as a part of project The Lucifer effect)
2011
K4 Prague (The Invisibles)
Kreadance České Budějovice (NANOHACH Out! - collective exhibition)
The Atelier of the Body Design wwww.telovydesign.cz in Brno (Dream Life)
Lety Memorial (Lačho lav sar maro / A good word is like bread)
Duncan Centre Prague (NANOHACH Out! - collective exhibition)
The Museum of B. Horák in Rokycany (The INvisibles)
NoD Gallery Prague (Transgender me - collective exhibition)
The House of Reading Prague (Lačho lav sar maro / A good word is like bread)
Parish of Ostrava Zabreh (Roots)
Art /SPACE/ Prague (The Roma / The INvisibles)
Faculty od Science UP Olomouc (Contrasts)
Public space in Košice SK (collective exhibition - NANOHACH Out!)
Café Jericho Prague (Lačho lav sar jak maro / A good word is like a bread)
Galery of photography - Artinbox, Prague (The Titans - within Love is blind, sex is elsewhere)
House of culture, Neratovice CZ (The Titans; Dream life)
Ponec Theatre, Prage(collective exhibition - NANOHACH ven!)
2010
Stříbro, CZ (D/ROMs)
Karavanseráj, Prague (Roots)
Hus Library, Prague (Moldova)
The outside wall - Polička, CZ (Roots)
RefuFest - Prague (Roots)
M-club - Valmez, CZ (The INvisibles)
Polička, CZ (Behind Safari - The Contrasts)
Jindřišská tower, Prague (The INvisibles)
Museum of Roma Culture, CZ (D/ROMs)
Square Mont des Arts/Kunstberg, Brussels (collective exhibition Shoot against poverty)
2009
Czech National Radio Gallery - České Budějovice, CZ (Behind Safari)
Doris Gallery - Šumperk, CZ (The INvisibles)
The outside wall - Stříbro, CZ (Roots)
CSO Development effectivness, Prague (Behind Safari)
Colour meeting festival - Polička. CZ (NEviditelní)
Galeria of Arts Šaľa, Slovakia (WISWAP, collective exhibition)
The One World Festival - Brno (Behind Safari)
The One World Festival - Olomouc (The INvisibles)
Galeria Centralis, Budapest (Chachipe Youth, collective exhibition)
Museum of Roma culture, CZ (Romipen, collective exhibition)
2008
Stříbro, CZ (Behind Safari)
The Czech Embassy, Nairobi (Fallen Heaven, collective exhibition)
Museum of Roma culture, CZ (The INvisibles)
The House of the National Minorities, Prague (Trilobitos romano)
U Zlatého kohouta Gallery, Prague (I live in the deset, collective exhibition)
Episcopate of Hradec Králové, CZ (The Cathedral, collective exhibition)
2007
Bílé nároží - Pilsen, CZ (The INvisibles)
OKO Cinema, Prague (Hello Pakistan)
2006
Museum - Stříbro, CZ (Hello Pakistan)
Jericho Café, Prague (Hello Pakistan)
Museum of Police, Prague (Hello Pakistan)