David Gaberle already aligned himself with the great tradition of snapshot photography – commonly referred to as subjective documentary—in his debut series Metropolight (2017), created between 2012 and 2016 in major cities around the world. Last year, he transferred this established approach to his hometown and turned his lens towards Prague.

Working in colour and without staged interventions, Gaberle’s method is rooted in traditional photographic skills: observation, the careful selection of setting, and the patient anticipation of the decisive moment. Beneath seemingly simple and at first glance perhaps unremarkable images lies a dense network of references and meanings. Everything becomes a potential carrier of narrative. Characteristically, his photographs place people within the space of the modern metropolis, where the city itself becomes an active presence.

Only a small selection of the works was presented as printed photographs. Most of the images were shown through large-scale projection, interconnected by an installation composed of various visual fragments of Prague’s streetscape extracted from the exhibited photographs.