Category: Veronika Zemanova

I found a listing for an old Aktuell magazine on ebay last week which included the preview picture below …

Upon seeing that photo I was puzzled as I did not recognize the background from any set that I have ever seen. Upon further examinatiom of the hair style, lipstick and earrings, plus what appears to be a yellow flag in the background, I came to the conclusion that it might be a set we have never seen before by David Muscroft. David shot Veronika over a 2 day period in Algarve Portugal back in early 1999. I have examined all the photos published from those currently released Muscroft sets and cannot find a single yellow flag in any photos …. the black string necklace Veronika appears to be wearing could potentially suggest Set 421.

Of course I immediately purchased the issue … will let you know what I find inside when it arrives!!!!

I received an anonymous email from a fan the other day claiming that they had found a “new” candid photo of Veronika taken recently on Ibiza …. since I had no way of contacting them I figured that I would set the record straight about that photo here on the blog in hopes that they would see my response …

The photo sent was actually from Set 400 shot back in May 2009 in Cape Town and not Ibiza. Veronika had posted these on her own Blog on May 18, 2009. I have attached the pics below and Veronika’s own account of those photos from her blog ….

Remember that I wrote in one of my latest blogs about my new camera? With it I did some test pictures on my Sunday time-out with my husband and dogs Lara, Lenka and Muffin. For the ones that did not read all my blogs I am spending some time in Cape Town, South Africa. The photos that I want to share with you, I took in the countryside around Cape Town and many are taken on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world – Long Beach – that is near to the village called Noordhoek, close to Cape Town. I tried to capture the feeling of freedom, space and peace, and with people, dogs and children all running freely in the harmony. Everyone there enjoyed themselves. Where in the world can you still see that?

The weather here starts to be going into winter and I finished all I wanted to achieve here so I am thinking about going back to Ibiza in Spain.
Kisses
Veronika

I love the comment about the lack of make-up … what is Veronika worried about, she still looks absolutely freakin gorgeous!!!!

Whoever you were who sent me the photo … thanks anyway. Am glad you did 🙂

Well today after approximately 7 months of toiling, I finally finished the reformatting effort of every set on the website to make each page easier to browse on a mobile device and to add some additional commentary and observations about each set. I had performed the set updates in reverse chronological sequence starting with the most recent sets first and finally completing her earliest sets just today. It is during my work this morning that I came upon this quandary about the timeline which I am having trouble to reconcile.

Like many of these early sets I am not 100% certain of exactly when any specific set was taken since most of the accounts of Veronika’s early life adventures are centered around her lost camera equipment, which we were told on Veronika’s website had happened in 1997. By her own accounts it was that event that triggered her from moving from behind the camera to in-front of it.

Well if that did not happen until 1997 then the timeline between 1993 and 1997 does not hold any water. Her earliest published magazines were from Sept. 1997. I know 100% that she worked with photographer Jana Krenova in July 1997 and in some email exchanges with photographer Roberto Rocchi, was certain that he had photographed Veronika in 1996 already. In any case assuming his memory is faulty around that first time he had worked with Veronika, for sure he worked with her again a second time in June-July 1997 since several of the photos from that photo shoot wound up being published in several magazines in the Sept/Oct 1997 time frame.

Based on her much younger appearance in several of the early sets my suspicion is that Veronika posed nude before her camera equipment was stolen if we are to believe the 1997 date for that event. There is no way that all the nude material presented in the Early Years section of the Timeline could have been shot in Jan.-July period in 1997 if we assume best case that her camera was stolen on Jan. 1, 1997.

Hoping to start a bit of a debate here to see what other folks think. Am hoping that we can solve the mystery in the absence of hearing Veronika’s side of the story directly from her 😉

Looking forward to your posts!!!