The number in this case refers to recent works by 15 current students that offer a good representation of the strongest aspects of the Institute's output: personal documentary and self-reflection in an extended series of pictures, realized with a powerful use of color and technical mastery.

Several artists tackle themes of seaside holidays and leisure. Pictures from the series Croatia by Grzegorz Klatka represent this popular holiday destination as a squalid, hyper-colored hell-hole. A seemingly endless number of naked bodies are on display, deeply suntanned and oiled and set against gritty soil or concrete and bright beach paraphernalia. Passages of deep blue sky and orange-hued flesh seem to exude heat and sweat and claustrophobia. An exaggerated perspective emphasizes sunbathers' greasy lips or breasts and their avid, almost hysterical pursuit of some notion of luxury.

Václav Peták's photographs of Tunisia, in contrast, are fresh and airy. On piles of pale beige sand, people stand in coats and jeans against a white sky, or children run out of the frame. These shots have a marvelous sense of space and energy.

A series of black-and-white photos by Andrzej Kramarz titled Black Sea shows the bizarre combination of old and new, of the luxurious and basic decor that characterizes Black Sea resorts. With a stilted, staged quality the pictures portray groups of people spread across the space almost like chess pieces. In one shot, old men stand looking at the sea, while in another a young model poses for the camera. In a third shot a group of cows has broken loose on the beach, running wild among the sunbathers, whom they seem to have barely disturbed.

The slick, sensual photographs of Barbora Kuklíková border on fashion advertising images, so luscious and seductive are they. Two lengthy series titled Feelings in a Foreign City attempt to express the emotional lives of young non-Czech women (a Slovak and a Syrian) living in Prague. Both series reveal a sultry loneliness and the self-conscious self-obsession of youth. They portray the beautiful women slouching, pouting and daydreaming out of rainy windows. In bedrooms, bathrooms, swimming pools, underpasses and nightclub doorways they wander alone, fragile and tormented. Sensual, dramatic lighting and color are superbly produced in these works, along with supremely elegant compositions.