UCM graduate Jakubčo works at SME: I don't want to intentionally hurt people with my photography
Published: 12.2. 2025
He was there at the very beginning, when the idea of the atteliérmagazine was still in its infancy . He wrote a few articles for it, but when he bought an SLR camera, he became a photographer. Jozef Jakubčo is a graduate of FMK UCM and currently photographs for the daily SME.
Did the university prepare you sufficiently to work as a photographer?
I'm a proponent of the philosophy that university education itself should not just be about learning some amount of knowledge, but about getting into an environment where problems and ideas start to be discussed. Speaking for myself, I can say that school did not prepare me for practice.
The history of French journalism hasn't done me any favours so far, and neither has film theory. But aesthetics and some practical things in terms of editing texts and related things have helped me a lot. Just the discussions in class are important no matter where you work. College is all about meeting people you can talk to and maybe you'll meet later on. That's where you start to form ideas based on discussion that then guide you further.
You can read the full interview with Jozef Jakubč on the pages of Atteliér magazine.
