Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in the small Moravian town of Boskovice, in what was then Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague and trained as an aeronautical engineer, a profession he practised for several years while devoting every spare hour to photography. From the early 1960s he began photographing theatrical […]
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Josef Sudek was born in 1896 in Kolín, a small town in Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He trained as a bookbinder before being drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War. In 1917, he was wounded on the Italian front and lost his right arm — a devastating injury for […]
Read MoreMarkéta Luskačová
Markéta Luskačová was born in Prague in 1944, during the final year of the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. She grew up in the post-war period, studied sociology and philosophy at Charles University in Prague, and it was through her sociological research that she first encountered the communities that would become the subject of her most […]
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