Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and at times, a tasteless coffee or a burned toast can ruin our mood for the whole day. On the other hand, if we do enjoy a proper breakfast, we charge our body and brain with so much energy that we are able to resist what the world has in store for us on that given day. It may sound as a corny catchphrase from commercials, but just recall the last time a crispy croissant or breakfast made with love lifted your spirit. That’s why we’ve decided to take a peek into your kitchens and out of pure curiosity, explore your breakfast habits. Looking at the first few images, it was obvious that most of you prefer your breakfasts salty rather than sweet. If you’re enjoying your breakfast at this very moment, bon appétit and for those that have already finished their breakfasts for the day, let us take you on a short culinary adventure.

Irena Bucharová, Project co-ordinator, Czech Republic

František M. Kopáček, Writer, Czech Republic

Helena Horáčková, Design engineer, Czech Republic

Emílie Mrazíková, Retired,Czech Republic

Arina Kuranova,Student, Czech Republic

Il Em, None, Slovensko

Jana Holcová, Office worker, Czech Republic

Igor Faltus, Graphic designer, Czech Republic

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Karel Vaněk, Technician, Czech Republic

Přemek Divácký, Technician, Czech Republic

Petr Kleiner, Manager, Czech Republic

Roman Doleček, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Jan Martinek, Student, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Marcel Fujcik, Photographer, Czech Republic

Michaela Trčková, Student, Czech Republic

Lubomír Budný, Student, Czech Republic

Blažena Ejdn, Warehouser, Czech Republic

Antonín Blažek,Student, Czech Republic

Petr Hrubý, Engineer, Czech Republic

Gabrielle Guedj, Manager, Croatia

Lenka Pužmanová, Graphic designer, Czech Republic

Mila Štáfek, Worker, Czech Republic

Stanislava Kopáčková, Model, Czech Republic

Roman Čampula, Student, Czech Republic

Martin Škulina, Worker, Czech Republic

Dáša Veselá, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Karolina Koštialová, Student, Czech Republic

Zeynep Gülabi, Engineer, Turkey

Lucie Červinková,Student, Czech Republic

Kateřina Zajíčková, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Erik Suder, Train dispatcher, Czech Republic

Honzik Martinek, Student, Czech Republic

Zdenka Kyselová, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Nik H…, Student, Czech Republic

Mojmír Gayer, Retired, Czech Republic

Jiří Šebek, Web designer, Czech Republic

Marie Fučíková, Bartender, Czech Republic

Jiří Pergl, Enterpreneur, Czech Republic

Jan Lankaš, Journalist, Czech Republic

Coswig, Student, Utah

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Milan Martinek, Teacher, Czech Republic

Diana Reinhardtová, Student, Czech Republic

Jana Bučková, Student, Czech Republic

Pasi Heiskanen, Web designer, Finland

Pavel Karas, Photographer, Czech Republic

Mirek Zelenka, Worker, Czech Republic

When the Week of Life was in its infant phase, we, in the editor’s office, noticed a photographic phenomenon lurking amongst the photos of the authors from around the world. It was more of a sociological phenomenon, perhaps pointing out the future investigative and scientific character of the whole project. What are we talking about? With a few exceptions, everyone who submitted one or two sets into the project, he or she included a photo lying down in front of the strong ‘magnetic box’ called TELEVISION, with own feet usually belonging to the resulting image. Resting, relaxing or just laying on the sofa watching TV has become a worldwide phenomenon. We can see here how powerful the grasp of this medium is and how we’ve become its loyal brothers and sisters. From the photos themselves, we can even easily sense the intensity that goes on during this kind of ‘action’. At times, it is electrifying as telephone wires. Other times, it can be as chilly as the spring frost. At this point, we are not here to judge, assess or evaluate; that belongs to the Author’s column section, soon to expand by another scholarly perspective. As for our concluding remark, hardly any other activity is as resembling across the continents as hanging around the TV is. Welcome to the world of the Magic box.

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Alena Šustrová, Office worker, Czech Republic

Tomáš Fibír, Civil engineer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Robert Thiele, Photographer, Germany

Jan Maťátko, Bartender, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Antonín Blažek, Student, Czech Republic

Veronika Bahnová, Retired, Czech Republic

František Zíka, Skateboarder, Czech Republic

Vlad Gerasimov, Illustrator, Russia

Stanislav Pokorný, Photographer, Czech Republic

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic

Hana Růžičková, Photographer, Czech Republic

Rick Minnich, Film director, Germany

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Pasi Heiskanen, Web designer, Finland

Jiří Šebek, Web designer, Czech Republic

Věra Kurcová, Businessperson, Czech Republic

Petr Hrubý, Engineer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Gianna Combs, Manager, Croatia

Vladimir Brunton, Photographer, Czech Republic

Marcel Fujcik, Photographer, Czech Republic

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Rick Minnich, Film director, Germany

Martina Štolbová, Teacher, Czech Republic

Karel Vaněk, Technician, Czech Republic

Michal Havránek, Computer programmer, Czech Republic

Johannes Frank, Graphic, Iceland

Il Em, None, Slovakia

Martina Kaderková, Foundation director, Czech Republic

Jiří Hrdlička, Technician, Czech Republic

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Jan Lankaš, Journalist, Czech Republic

Josef Dohnal, Student, Czech Republic

Michael Agel, Photographer, Germany

Janina Fröhlichová, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Lubomír Budný, Student, Czech Republic

Lucas Di Tiero, Analyst, Argentina

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Stanislava Tomášková, Physiotherapist, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Pasi Heiskanen, Web designer, Finland

Lubomír Kotek, Photographer, Czech Republic

Petr Hrubý, Ingineer, Czech Republic

Rick Minnich, Film director, Germany

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Alena Šustrová, Office worker, Czech Republic

Right from the beginning of Week of Life, we see that almost every other set that appears on WoL has one thing in common and that is a photo from a car. Maybe it tells more about our life than we are willing to admit. In a recent poll of an English social magazine, a car was selected as the greatest invention of all time. It even did beat phenomena like electricity, TV or telephone. We can’t imagine our life without cars and since the moment it was invented, our life is a journey even more than ever before in our history. Since that moment, a philosophical term Journey got another meaning. That is why we present you fifty most interesting views from all around the world, where you spend a small part of your life in a toy called car and you are on the Journey.

Petr Kleiner, Manager, Czech Republic

Robert Thiele, Photographer, Germany

mila Štáfek, Worker, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Miroslav Sanytrák, Consultant, Czech Republic

Ján František Kassay, Landlord of the pub, Slovakia

František Šíma, Graphic, Czech Republic

Stanislava Kopáčková, Model, Czech Republic

Antonín Blažek, Student, Czech Republic

Daniel Kaifer, Photographer, Czech Republic

František Zíka, Skateboarder, Czech Republic

katka palovova, Social worker, Slovakia

Roman Dolecek, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic

Helena Horáčková, Design engineer, Czech Republic

Michael Agel, Photographer, Germany

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Pepa Středa, Photographer, Czech Republic

Přemek Divácký, Technician, Czech Republic

Marcel Fujcik, Photographer, Czech Republic

Jiří Křenek, Photographer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Paul Greg, Guide, Nový Zéland

Eva Staňková, Curator, Czech Republic

Ivana Gantnerová, Architect, Czech Republic

Patrik Joo, Circus director, Czech Republic

Pasi Heiskanen, Web designer, Finsko

Petr Schel, Sculptor, Czech Republic

Milan Martinek,Tteacher, Czech Republic

Nadya Domashneva, Designer, Samoa

Stanislava Tomášková, Physiotherapist, Czech Republic

Vladimir Yurkovic, Graphic, Slovakia

Andrew Matusik, Photographer, Alabama

David Papánek, Office worker, Czech Republic

Jiří Heller, Photographer, Czech Republic

Jiří Šebek, Web designer, Czech Republic

Martina Kaderková, Foundation director, Czech Republic

Roman Pastierik, Computer programmer, Slovakia

Jiří Pergl, Enterpreneur, Czech Republic

Jaroslav Bohm, Enterpreneur, Czech Republic

Karel Rabenhaupt, Policeman, Czech Republic

Martin Kantner, Student, Czech Republic

Luboš Karásek, Computer programmer, Czech Republic

Petr Kubečka, Manager, Czech Republic

Ferdinand Martin Miyawa, Physician, Keňa

Tomas Peroutka, Design engineer, Czech Republic

Věra Kurcová, Businessperson, Czech Republic

lamik, Freelance artist, Slovakia

Il Em, None, Slovakia

Alex Galmenau, Photographer, Rumunsko

What could be more inviting to make self-portraits than the very task of our Week of Life documentary. As you all certainly know, the project guidelines state that as the author you should always have the camera in your hand or at least set it yourself and shoot using the self-timer. This is why we eagerly looked forward to the choice of this topic, as we anticipated that the creativity would be endless. On the other hand we had to devote quite a lot of effort into it, especially because there really was a huge pile of photographs, and it was not at all easy to sort them and select the final 50, which we bring you here today. They are definitely not short on imagination and creativity, which is why comparing the different styles is quite entertaining. If you find that you don’t see photographs from rear and side automobile mirrors, be assured that in the near future these will be included in a separate topic category. So let’s look at how you see yourselves and how beautiful the self-portraits you’ve been able to create are.

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Miguel Apolinario, Photographer, Portugal

Stanislav Pokorný, Photographer, Czech Republic

Eva Mueller, Photographer, New York

Jiří Křenek, Photographer, Czech Republic

Federico Ciamei, Designer, Italy

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Il Em, None, Slovakia

Stanislava Kopáčková, Model, Czech Republic

Petr Lindner, Editor-in-chief, Czech Republic

František Zíka, Skateboarder, Czech Republic

Alex Galmenau, Photographer, Romania

Jiří Heller, Photographer, Czech Republic

Martina Watzková, Student, Czech Republic

Miroslav Sanytrák, Consultant, Czech Republic

Michael Agel, Photographer, Germany

Lubomír Budný, Student, Czech Republic

Mojmír Gayer, Retired, Czech Republic

Stanko Abadzic, Teacher, Croatia

Rob Trnka, Photographer, Czech Republic

Hana Růžičková, Photographer, Czech Republic

Jiří Hrdlička, Technician, Czech Republic

Vincent Sagart, Designer, Washington, D.C.

Eva Staňková, Curator, Czech Republic

Adam Zíka, Student, Czech Republic

Veronika Souralová, Photographer, Czech Republic

Pasi Heiskanen, Web designer, Finland

Petr Schel, Sculptor, Czech Republic

Lucie Červinková, Student, Czech Republic

Nadya Domashneva, Designer, Samoa

Igor Faltus, Graphic designer, Czech Republic

Tereza z Davle, Photographer, Czech Republic

Radek Štumpauer, Welder, Czech Republic

Rick Minnich, Film director, Germany

Tomáš Vojta, Technician, Czech Republic

Marja Palosuo, Architect, Sweden

Ivo Hausner, Photographer, Czech Republic

Martina Pavlíková, Marketing director, Slovakia

Gabriela Gernat Ksandr, Photographer, Germany

Irena Bucharová, Project co-ordinator, Czech Republic

Peter Hájek, Pharmacist, Czech Republic

coswig, Student, Utah

Vladimír Brunton, Photographer, Czech Republic

Marta Duchoslavová, Physiotherapist, Czech Republic

Přemysl Čech, Student, Czech Republic

Carina Sundqvist, Producer, Sweden

Eva Durčáková, Parental leave, France

Ctibor Košťál, Photographer, Czech Republic

The second edition of Photo Topics logically relates to the end of the holidays that come at the end of each year. New Year’s Eve and the coming of the New Year as such can have a different character for each and every one of us. Some like it full of joy, some like it larger than life, some like it quiet, and some perhaps don’t even have a chance to choose. Fortunately, we had the possibility to choose and we bring you a collection of photographs taken by the members of our WoL family who experienced this specific day in various different places and in various different ways.

Paja, Student, Portugal

Alena, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Tomas Loewy, Photographer, Florida

lamik, Freelance artist, Slovakia

Juraj Sucharda, Businessperson, Slovakia

Roman Dolecek, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Alena, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Tomas Loewy, Photographer, Florida

Martina Watzková, Student, Czech Republic

Alena, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

lamik, Freelance artist, Slovakia

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

Martina Watzková, Student, Czech Republic

Paja, Student, Portugal

Jan Watzek, Student, Czech Republic

Roman Dolecek, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Martina Watzková, Student, Czech Republic

Alena, Unemployed, Czech Republic

lamik, Freelance artist, Slovakia

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

The section we would like to present to you today is one we have been looking forward to since the very beginning of Week of Life’s existence. Today’s Christmas edition is represented by only three countries but this fact doesn’t take away any of its glory. We all realize that we are just at the beginning and that with the growing number of Week of Life family members, we can expect amazing contributions to this section and that these contributions will become more and more interesting as the topics get wittier and perhaps even absurd at times. The sole purpose and message of this new section is of course comparison. Comparison of the way one person lives and experiences something, which another person in a place more or less distant may live and experience quite differently. Waiting for new topics, which you can suggest at contact@weekoflife.com, fills us with expectation and the well-known photographic excitement. We all brush our teeth in the morning, we all watch TV, we all have fun, drive cars or ride in buses, we cook, we laugh, we enjoy sports, we get bored. We simply live our lives yet each and every one of us does it slightly differently. And this SLIGHT DIFFERENCE is, and certainly also will be in the future, very entertaining to compare. Today, we have no choice but to look forward to next year, to see how many representatives of various cultures from countries of the entire world will contribute to the Christmas section. So enjoy it, compare your habits, customs, and everydayness.

Petr Kleiner, Manager, Czech Republic

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Il Em, None, Slovakia

Jiří Hrdlička, Technician, Czech Republic

Marja Palosulo, Architect, Sweden

Milan Rejholec, Student, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Pavlína Jandová, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Petr Kleiner, Manager, Czech Republic

Petr Kubečka, Manager, Czech Republic

Roman Doleček, Unemployed, Czech Republic

Snow, Student, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Il Em, None, Slovakia

Karel Vaněk, Technician, Czech Republic

Marja Palosuo, Architect, Sweden

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic

Pavlína Jandová, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Petr Kubečka, Manager, Czech Republic

Pavlína Jandová, Parental leave, Czech Republic

Roman Doleček, Unemployed, Czech Republic

František Ortmann, Photographer, Czech Republic

Zdeněk Dvořák, Special education needs teacher, Czech Republic

Marja Palosuo, Architect, Sweden

Adolf Zika, Photographer, Czech Republic