World renown, International Photographer, George Hruby, has specialized in shooting ancient ruins around the world and candid photography in 3rd World Countries since the 1970’s. Entering the 21st century, he broadened his photographic genres to include Street and Night Photography as well as Street Art.
Originally born in the United States, Hruby was raised in his childhood as a photographer by his father. Handed down by generations, Hruby's father was also raised growing up as a photographer by his mother coming to America from then, Czechoslovakia. Hruby's early talents with photography, coupled with wanderlust, found him by the age of eighteen, traveling the United States and eventually the globe with multiple 35mm cameras around his neck, photographing the world as he saw it.
He is a Post-Impressionist Photographer. A French resident, he studied and was moved by both the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements in France in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Touched by painters like Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh (See his blog: “When I met Vincent van Gogh on a Street”), he sought to perfect a technique of producing photographs that resembled paintings rather than photographs. As early as 2012, he began to master this technique by digital manipulation only, long before AI technology was ever released to the public over a decade later. Therefore, none of his photographic presentations are AI generated but instead, naturally made through his own process. His ‘Paintings” collection is a classic example of this style of photographic art.
Like Post-Impressionist Painters of their time, Hruby's use of vivid and sometimes random colors, using real-life subjects, geometric forms, and somewhat blurred effect to slightly distort forms is all part of his attempt to express himself and his main topic through such techniques. This, coupled with his passion for use of natural light and color, and use of nature, makes his photographic prints indeed resemble post-impressionists’ paintings of the day. Each separate work is the artist expressing a story, conveying to the viewer about something that touches him about the subject matter.
Just as Monet was often criticized for his art being blurry by art critics at the time, Hruby follows the same technique in his photographic style. In what would other words be a normal photograph, Hruby’s use of bright colors and blurriness often invokes a sense of wonder in the overall image. His work frequently involves the use of outdoors and the manipulation of ambient and natural light, contrast, color, and shadow.
It wasn’t until 2025 that Hruby discovered that his photographic technique had been created on film in 1911 by world famous photographer, Francis James Mortimer. “Mortimer believed photography should be as expressive and evocative as painting, using techniques like soft focus, careful composition, and tonal manipulation to create images that stirred the soul rather than merely recorded events. His work often blurred the line between reality and art, and nowhere is that clearer than in this striking image of the shipwrecked ‘Arden Craig’.”
Like a painter, Hruby puts his photographic art onto fine canvas and frame for its final effect.
Please feel free to browse through the different ‘Collections’ listed and choose one that arouses your curiosity.
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