Martin Hladik is a Czech professional photographer, who focuses on people and creates documents about their lives, problems and pleasures.
His work contains a great body of images which describes the Japanese tradition, culture, craft and local traditional festivals.

His work has been published worldwide. He had created documents for such clients like BBC, The Times or Sony Music Entertaiment, Victor Entertainment or Cartoon Network.

He has recently published a book with his colleges  "Tattoo in Japan" - shows the sharp contrasts between the traditional and the contemporary schools of Japanese tattooing and cultural differences between the historical tattoo and the Western-influenced one.

He works in locations as well as in photo studio.
Martin Hladik is a founder of the Agency mh in Japan.