Looking To Be Safe & Sound

This is a reworked unpublished photo essay created in a time of crisis in late 2008 by Lukas Kroulik - brought back in the face of the 2020 pandemic. It drew on PROTECT AND SURVIVE: a booklet prepared for the Home Office by the Central Office of Information in 1980, aimed at the general public describing "how to make your home and your family as safe as possible under nuclear attack."

'It did not happen' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Hiding from the worst' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Precious or essential?' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

'Take cover!' photo collage by Lukas Kroulik.

Lukas has always been looking for places and spaces where he had felt safe and sound. He styled, made-up and photographed his fashion model to fit his own safe and familiar space, as recommended by the emergency booklet.

Video of an Artist at a Time of Crisis - Styled and Directed by Lukas Kroulik

26th March 2020, SAAS Gallery, Chelsea, London

Lukas Kroulik curated this multidisciplinary exhibition for artist Frederique Feder. Here on video the artist talks to her long dead parents at the gallery space reflecting on her childhood challenges that she never got the chance to talk through with her parents. She is captured by a student called HoHo from the famous London College of Communication, mentored by Lukas to practise his skills and also to contribute to the charity this exhibition was supporting and publicising.

Lukas Kroulik, curator, seen overlooking the art objects flying out of the artist's bag

Numero Russia - SPRING issue

International fashion coordinator Lukas Kroulik was behind this cover shoot and interview for Numero Russia 057 featuring supermodel Martha Hunt, photographed in New York by Eliska Sky, styled by Sandra Benbaruk - as well as a fabulous interview with Shanghai based fashion designer to the Hollywood stars Grace Chen in which she shares her story about how Lukas created her first high end fashion event for British society in London.

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