Libuše Jarcovjáková

In the artist's words:

Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952, Prague) has been photographing the reality of her own life since the 1970s. Her pictures are raw, unembellished and deeply personal. A fictitious marriage enabled her to leave for West Berlin in 1985 and she spent five years in the Kreuzberg district. She also lived in Tokyo, where she worked as a fashion photographer, among other things. In 2017, she gained international recognition with her monograph Černé roky (Black Years), followed by her breakthrough in 2019 with the book and exhibition Evokativ, which was shown at the Rencontres d'Arles and named the best photographic achievement of the year by The Guardian. Since fall 2024, the National Gallery in Prague has dedicated a comprehensive retrospective to her work. The documentary film I am not yet who I want to be about her life and work premiered at the Berlinale 2024.