Description
Pavel traveled to Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky between 2020 and 2025. He listened to Delta’s music, stood still in its shadows and met people who welcomed him in their lives, and created his visual American Diary of feelings and moments that take you to a journey through a region that is often spoken of, but rarely understood.
Published: 2026
Photography: Pavel Nasadil
Texts: Maude Schuyler Clay, Pavel Nasadil, Mick Kolassa, Watermelon Slim
Content: 77 black and white photographs, 128 pages
Paper: Symbol Tatami 150 g/m2
Print run: 250 pcs
Pavel Nasadil (Czech Republic, 1975) is an architect and an autodidact photographer. Pavel’s interest lies in documenting stories of marginalized groups and individuals through photography. Lately he has begun to pursue the diary tradition of personal documentary developing his own approach to single images and stories.
In 2018 Pavel won the Czech Press Photo Award for his series Awaiting Trial from juvenile prisons in Sierra Leone. In the same year he was selected to Nikon NOOR Academy Masterclass in Budapest organized by NOOR photojournalists. In 2020 he won the Maghreb Photography Awards (Best Project outside Maghreb), in 2023 he was the finalist. He is one of the finalists for Goma Award 2024. Pavel started the World Documentary Photography in Prague, a small project inviting photographers on a short residence to Prague. So far the participants were Jan Grarup (2018), Magnum member Paolo Pellegrin (2019) , Pep Bonet (2022) and Czech photographer Viktor Kolář (2022). Pavel’s photography background comes from workshops with his personal heroes, namely with Matus Zajac and Swedish photographer Anders Petersen.
