Marek Bartoš is a food photographer based in Prague, Czech Republic. He works for private clients, magazines, restaurants and book publishers.
He follows food through the whole process, from fields and farms to markets and restaurants. He has a daylight studio in Prague. He has photographed several cookbooks with the chef Zdeněk Pohlreich.
His book God Is a Pickle was published by gestalten in 2026. He made it with the writer Šárka Otevřel Camrdová. It is a cookbook about preserving in the Czech Republic, with 272 pages. His photographs mix studio food images, location shots and documentary portraits.
He grew up with preserving: picking fruit in the garden and processing it in his grandmother’s kitchen. He was raised on film and spent hours in the darkroom at school.
