A woman with Kimono looks at cherry trees in bloom in Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Japan on Thursday, April 4, 2024. (Photo by Noriko Hayashi for The Washington Post)
English lingerie and catwalk model and television personality Abbey Clancy seen attending Warner Music Brits after party in London, England on February 22, 2018. (Photo by Hewitt/SilverHub/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
A sеx worker performs in a mobile peep show to protest against the decision that sеx workers are not yet allowed to return to work, in The Hague, The Netherlands. 02 March 2021. The Dutch cabinet stipulated that all contact professions could return to work after a lockdown, but excluded sеx workers from resuming their work. (Photo by Sem van der Wal/EPA/EFE)
A shepherd and his flock in the Bitlis province of eastern Turkey in the first decade of April 2024. Shepherds regularly embark on gruelling journeys through the dusty outback, as they take their sheep to the high plateaus needed for grazing and then back to villages for milking. (Photo by Kahraman Kaya/Solent News)
The “Rabid Transit” Burning Man art car erupts with flames from it's onboard propane poofers during the 4th day of the annual Burning Man arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, U.S., August 31, 2017. (Photo by Jim Bourg/Reuters)
Artist Richard Stipl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and now lives and works both in Canada and the Czech Republic.
Working initially as a painter, Richard Stipl has recently turned to making sculpture. Considered an exceptional talent in technical terms, Richard stands apart from his contemporaries through his uncanny ability to breathe a vital and invigorating “life force” into his art works, regardless of media.
Stipl is included in many important public and private collections worldwide.
A portrait of Eric Abidal of Lyon prior to the UEFA Champions League Group D match between Olympique Lyonnais and Manchester United at the Municipal de Garland Stadium on September 15, 2004 in Lyon, France.