“My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.” IfsCareInterestNewsPhotographDon't CareI Don't CareThemeInvasionPrague Author:Josef Koudelka
“I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.” WantGivingPhotographyPhotographerPhotographAdvertisingEditorials Author:Josef Koudelka
“What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.” I CanMatterPhotographyPhotographerPhotographRepeatsWhat Matters Author:Josef Koudelka
“Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.” IfsWellsSometimesEnoughPhotographyPhotographerPhotograph Author:Josef Koudelka
“When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.” IfsThinkingBelieveLooksMomentsGuyAsksI BelieveResultsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographContactPrintThis Guy Author:Josef Koudelka
“My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers... They say, 'We came to liberate you....' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed.' They say: 'No. We never... no shooting. No. No.' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there.' And they have to believe me.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI CanDifferentSometimesShowsSawsHappenedPhotographyPhotographerPhotographSoldierProofRussiaShootingBelieve In MeExesPrague Author:Josef Koudelka
“The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.” WorldTryingLeftPhotographyEuropePhotographerPhotographDisappearEnormousRapids Author:Josef Koudelka
“When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer."” FirstsSaidSubjectsMetsPhotographyPhotographerPhotographPracticalsGentlemanCzechoslovakiaPractical Things Author:Josef Koudelka
