Hi!
My name is Patrik Švantner and I’m a 28yo creative mind from Czech Republic.
Most of my life I dedicated to football and I’ve been fortunate enough to experience it on professional level. After few years on professional level I stepped down to semi-pro level to be able to pursue my other passion – photography. I started slow, learning with my camera during traveling, experimenting and taking self portraits in my room. That gave me enough confidence to start sharing my work and after few months I’ve been approached from modeling agency, not as a photographer, but as a model. I wasn’t sure about this idea at first, but due to an injury I decided to give it a go. I enjoyed the process of every photoshoot from the first moment, my experience as a photographer gave me good skills I could use on the other side of the lens and improve as photographer at the same time. After 6 months in Czech Republic I went of my first modeling contract to Bangkok, Thailand. It is safe to say that it completely changed my life. I’ve met amazing people and most importantly I met my wife, who was there on a modeling contract as well. Over the two years I’ve spent in South Asia I worked in Phillippines with New Monarq and in Malaysia as well. I worked on amazing project, editorials, runway shows and incredible TV commercials with teams of hundreds of people. During all this time I was constantly improving my skills as a photographer as well, I did countless model testshoots and even took on client projects in Phillippines. Now I settled with my wife back in Europe, came back to playing football and balancing fashion/sport life. I found passion in doing rebranding projects, marketing and of course doing photography and modeling. Thanks to my experience and book from Asia I was able to sign contracts with european agencies and now I able to work directly across Europe.