Libuše Jarcovjáková was recently named as one of 7 over 70 in the Czech language version of Forbes. Since it’s in a language I don’t read, everything I know about it consists of a small blurb from her publisher. “I want to photograph. I want to go places, travel, observe, and perceive. It’s enough simply to perceive — and to feel something,” says the woman included in Forbes’ selection...
In this sermon on the dissenting tradition I reflect upon lessons from Václav Havel's text The Power of the Powerless and the importance of the free pulpit.
After I left Oxford, I spent the weekend in Prague. Like my time in Oxford, the trip was primarily work related. I was there visiting the Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková. Her show at FotoFest 2022 will be held at First Houston. My father and I are curating it and the objective of the visit was to work with her to make the final selection of images for the exhibition. I think it is going to...