A retrospective cross-section of the photographer's work to mark his 80th birthday. This Prague exhibition displays 350 photographs selected from a large collection donated by Josef Koudelka and managed by the Museum of Decorative Arts. It includes examples from all of his well-known series: Beginnings, Experiments, Theatre, Gypsies, Invasion 68, Exiles and Panoramas. Prague's National Gallery (Veletrzni Palac) is exhibiting a series of 18 photographs taken by Koudelka in 2013 for the Vatican's first presentation at the Venice Biennale on…

This large-scale display shows re-printed photographs of tanks from the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. These images commemorate the 50th anniversary of the suppression of liberal reforms by 200,000 Soviet troops and 2000 tanks on the 21st August 1968. 1968 was a pivotal year in global politics, including the Paris student demonstrations in May 1968. Rigid political institutions across the world, on both the right and left, were challenged by a younger, more idealistic post-war generation, demanding reforms and a relaxation of…

From 22 August, the National Gallery in Prague will exhibit photographs by Josef Koudelka of the incursion of the Warsaw Pact troops into Prague, a catastrophe that had a major impact on the fate of the country’s inhabitants. Although he had never engaged in reportage, the pictures he took during several dramatic days in August 1968 have become a symbol of the national tragedy and, more broadly, of any military oppression and fight for freedom. His series of photographs has…

Occupation as the occupiers see it. Five Warsaw Pact countries occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968. 50 years later five film directors from these countries shot the stories of five soldiers who took part. A tribute to the 108 people who were killed in Czechoslovakia during the 1968 invasion, the film tells the story of the young men who left their homes for a secret mission to save communism, but came to be hated by the people they had come to rescue.…

In March last year, the president of the Czech Republic was preparing to announce whether or not he would be running for re-election, and the press were ready to cover his decision. The announcement, however, was to be made at a private event at Prague Castle and no reporters were to be admitted. Filmmaker Tomas Bojar takes us inside two newsrooms in Prague as their teams race to be the first to break the story. Breaking News is a compelling, entertaining…