Mariusz Forecki – Kurz / Ewolucja imperium 1988-2022 (Dust / The Evolution of the Empire)
#1 min Josef Moucha
9. 5. 2023
The publication responds to the invasion of Ukraine by the army of the Russian Federation. To all its illegality, baseness, and horrifying cruelty but also to the desperate inability of the citizens of the largest state in the world to resist the arbitrariness of the holders of power there. Translated, the first part of the book's title would be Dust. Mariusz Forecki (b. 1962) began collecting his observations during the agony of the Soviet Union. He summarizes: "Out of the dust of collapse emerged the contours of a new empire, which, through massive propaganda and social engineering, turned into a realm of evil, threatening the world of humanism with its claims to freedom and happiness." The jury of the Central European House of Photography Book Biennial in Bratislava awarded the 356-page volume the main prize in the category of contemporary works.
Mariusz Forecki. Kurz / Ewolucja imperium 1988–2022. (Dust / The Evolution of the Empire) Poznań: Pix.house, 2022. ISBN 978-83-961216-6-0.
Josef Moucha
#4 min Josef Moucha
Flashes of old memories
“Bohdan Holomíček, an artist of life: continuous action, outputs while you wait.” This was the conclusion of my recommendation, written six years ago, to the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic, which then indeed proceeded to decorate Holomíček with the title of Personality of Czech Photography for his long-standing contribution to the field.
#4 min Josef Moucha, Libuše Jarcovjáková
Notes From Libuše Jarcovjáková
The Czech Design Academy has inducted Libuše Jarcovjáková (b. 1952) into its Hall of Fame for her lasting cultural impact just as cinemas are screening the photographer’s memoirs I’m Not Everything I Want to Be and the National Gallery Prague is celebrating the success of her retrospective.
#9 min Josef Moucha
On Authorship
I don’t need a theme… I am a theme! – that, in short, is the shift that is making its way across social media (and not exclusively, either) where quantity manifests as a practically riveting movement. Never before has the field of photography existed with any semblance of the massiveness of contemporary practice – power and incisiveness contained in a message of non-negligible quality, however, remains just as rare as ever.
#1 min Josef Moucha
Josef Šnobl – Praga Obscura
#1 min Josef Moucha
Antonín Kratochvíl – David Bowie, Looking for the Light
#1 min Josef Moucha, Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka – Deníky (Diaries)
#1 min Josef Moucha, Marie Tomanová
Marie Tomanova – It Was Once My Universe
#2 min Josef Moucha, Markéta Luskačová
Testimony of Markéta Luskačová
“People must fight against the evil they feel equal to at that moment,” said the dying Jan Palach. He awakened the conscience of his fellow citizens in January 1969 – by self-immolation. Markéta Luskačová's photographs show the funeral procession through the centre of Prague as a demonstration of resistance to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.