Ing. Libor Teplý graduated from the Agricultural University in Brno and the Institute of Creative Photography in Olomouc (currently the Institute of Creative Photography at the Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava). After a short stint in agriculture and several years of working in a fine art gallery, he became a freelance photographer. He specializes in photographing important sacred and secular buildings, as well as fine art. His photographs are used by prominent state and private institutions and book publishers in the Czech Republic and occasionally abroad.
In 2000 he founded with his wife Jana his own publishing house, FOTEP, focused on photographic publications about significant places in the Czech Republic, many inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The FOTEP publishing house uses almost exclusively his own photographs, synthesizing text and visual components in a balanced manner to produce premium-tier photographic publications, many released in both Czech and English editions. In addition to book production, he hosts solo exhibitions of his own philosophically themed photographic work. Through his photography, he seeks to reveal the omnipresent beauty that he perceives as a symbol of truth.