Robo Kočan was born in 1968 in Poprad (Slovakia). He studied photography at the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Košice and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in 1996. Robo Kocan makes playful images with light in landsc
apes, which typically look like animated fairy tales. He creates those images by placing a black cut out form of, for example, the negative space around a fish, over the front of a box and putting a light inside the box, then covering the light with gels or colored filters. By positioning this box in the landscape and setting off the light many times at different distances of the camera, he obtains the effect of a whole school of fish swimming through the forest.
 
This Slovak artist is typically "hands on" and keeps on working like this, despite the digital possibilities. Kočan has worked on many projects, including overlapping portraits of people and of dogs and their owners, drawing with light in the landscape and multiple self portraits in an urban space. His work travelled all over the world in a number of individual and collective exhibitions. It was already exhibited in Prague, Bratislava, Poprad, Košice, Paris, Dijon - Erfurt, Karsruhe, Dortmund, Amsterdam, Vienna, Warsaw, Poznan and Budapest.