Publication: Huck Magazine
Role: Writer
Date: Sept 2019
Grey state. Hidden rooms. White flash.
Libuše Jarcovjáková’s lens caught it.
I wrote the story of her images for Huck.
Libuše Jarcovjáková’s lens caught it.
I wrote the story of her images for Huck.
“People tend to have a completely distorted image of what everyday life was like in a totalitarian society,” she explains. “People were extremely surprised by the lack of restraint in these photos, by how wildly we lived.”
“People don’t change that much. We’re still the same human species with the same worries and the same pleasures. Perhaps this is the universal message of my work: that people are always the same.”
– Libuše Jarcovjáková
