![]() With help from Magnum, Koudelka was able to get a British working visa and fled to England in 1970. Koudelka decided to record the happenings of the invasion and his negatives were smuggled to the Magnum Photo agency under a fake name to protect himself and his family. His first big project was photographing gypsies in Romania, but as soon as he returned to Prague, the Soviet Invasion started. While he did focus on photography in his free time, he began work as an aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava.Īfter performing commissioned photography work for theatre magazines, Koudelka decided to quit his engineering career in 1967 and take on full-time work as a photographer. Later he studied engineering at the Czec Technical University in Prague. Profile:Ĭzech photographer famous for his black & white work capturing the human spirit amidst dark landscapes.īorn: January 10, 1938 in Boskovice, Czech RepublicĪs a child, Josef Koudelka started photographing his family and environment with a 6×6 Bakelite camera. ![]() ![]() I’ll also group them together here every time I add a new one. Unlike the rest of the blog, I’m doing these in a straight profile format to make it easy for quick access to facts, quotes and knowledge on all the masters. * “Master Profiles” is a series profiling all the great photographers of uncontrolled life. ![]()
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