Picture description: A man who was sworn to Home Guard militias, guards the barricades. He didn’t want to tell me his name. “We don´t trust anyone here. What if you are working for president Yanukovych?” 2 February 2014
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
Picture description: “Vladyslava came to Maidan from Mukachevo to visit her son who had been staying at the antigovernment camp for over a month. She belongs to the association of Ukrainian mothers´protesting against the brutal intervention by Berkut government forces against the demonstrators.”
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
Picture description: “There is no proper revolution without barricades”, says Alexander, a Cossack from Zaporozhzhya. “Here around the Khreshchatyk and Independence Square we made the barricades of wood, stone, snow, wire, fencing, tires, garbage cans, welded iron, sandbags and anything else that you can imagine.“
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
Picture description: Yana, 19 year-old student of the Polytechnic institute, helps at St Michael´s camp. As a volunteer, she provides people with warm clothes, distributes food, makes coffee, tea and cocoa. She constantly supplies the defenders of the barricades with things they need.
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
Picture description: “A European can’t really understand what’s happening here”, explains Jachym, who came to Maidan from Lvov. “And it’s difficult explain that when I come home, the police can arrest me, take me somewhere out of town, strip me naked, pour water on me and I freeze.”
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
Picture description: Ivan (63) has been protesting since 3 December 2013. “I wish for free elections and no criminals in power in Ukraine. We need democracy.” He is demanding the resignation of the current Ukraine president and the entire government.
Series description: Many faces of Ukrainian Revolution, Kiev, Independence Square, January - February 2014
Author: Filip Jandourek
DALŠÍ OCENĚNÍ
Picture description: JÁN KASAL. He strangled and robbed an old age pensioner and attacked and raped an old age pensioner. He had been previously imprisoned for another murder.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: LUBOŠ MIKO. He shot a taxi driver in cold blood and attacked two women with a machete.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: RADIM ODEHNAL. He killed a man with a hammer and knife, then quartered him. During the time when he attempted to dispose of the body on an outdoor grill, he four times brutally raped the girlfriend of the murdered man. He had been tried for rape before, then treated and released to outpatient care.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: MIROSLAV SZETTRY. In a letter to the photographer he wrote: “I lived an orderly life until I was 30. Then I ‘tripped’ and got eleven years for a murder. They released me for good behaviour nine years later but I never managed to live outside so I returned to prison to serve the rest of my sentence. After coming out of prison I lived a normal life. I had work and somewhere to live, but then I got into a situation which I couldn’t manage and so I resolved it by murdering my landlady. I can’t deal with difficult situations.”
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: JOSEF SCHOTENHAMMEL. He murdered a twenty-year-old girl and tried to strangle a fifty three-year-old woman. He suffers from sexual deviation.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: TOMÁŠ VÍT. He is the youngest prisoner serving a life sentence. As an eighteen-year-old he brutally murdered two seniors living in his vicinity when they refused to give him painkillers.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: JAROSLAV STODOLA. He and his wife Dana are the worst serial killers in the Czech Republic. He killed and robbed eight seniors.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: MIROSLAV ŠIRŮČEK. He killed his mother, father and younger brother. He says: “I got a life sentence but I hope that one day I will be released.There is no going back on what I had done and there is no excuse for it.”
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
Picture description: OTO BIEDERMAN, member of the Kolín gang who robbed and killed five people in cold blood.
Series description: From the series Murders, Valdice, 5 December 2014 “Currently there are 45 people in Czech Republic sentenced to life imprisonment. The majority of them had been given a death sentence before it was abolished in 1990. I photographed 11 people in Valdice prison who were all given a life sentence for the murders of 27 people.”
Author: Radek Kalhous
DALŠÍ OCENĚNÍ
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
Series description: Maniac from the Volga Region. A mosaic of evidence and murder weapons used by criminologists investigating the so far unsolved serial murder case in Russia. The maniac strangled 32 women - all of them old age pensioners. A maniac has been operating in the Volga region of Russia for three years. Despite their efforts, the Russian police has been unable to catch him. He is a nightmare, a strangling phantom. It’s certain that he doesn’t plan his murders but he improvises and uses whatever is available to commit his crimes. I photographed the murder weapons which are kept in the archives of Russian criminologists in Kazan, who are working on the case.
Author: Stanislav Krupař
DALŠÍ OCENĚNÍ
Picture description: NINA KOPEČKOVÁ (74). Nina looks after a small farm in Malinovka village not far from Chernobyl. She lives with her son and hopes that she will not have to return to the “old country” like her daughters, who took the opportunity after the Chernobyl disaster. She is afraid that there will be a war and she hopes that in case of need, the Czech government will help the Volhynia Czechs.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
Picture description: VLADIMÍR ČECH (61). Vladimír knows that if it weren’t for the Czech Legions, there would have been no Czechoslovakia. His great grandfather was from Moravia, he himself lives in Malín, a village which knows about war massacres. The village of Český Malín was burned down by the Germans in the Second World War and just as Lidice, it was erased from the face of the earth.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
Picture description: MÍLA DENYSUK (66). Míla likes to sing. She sung in an orthodox church and in a Czech church in Krošna, which is a part of Žitomir. Her grandmother came from Czechoslovakia when she was one year old. Míla would like to return to the Czech Republic but she doesn’t know how. She doesn’t have much money; she is a widow and lives alone in one room. She visits folklore festivals.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
Picture description: STANISLAV SLÁMA (73). He is the soul of a music society where he plays the harmonica and composes songs - Czech, Polish, Ukrainian. He is not planning to return to Czech Republic because he is looking after his wife’s sister. He teaches at a technical school in Žitomir where he used to work as an aero mechanic. He is regarded as a living memoir of Volhynia Czechs.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
Picture description: RAISA STOLAREVIČ (77). Raisa remembers the time in 1947 when the Volhynia Czechs were returning back home. Her husband was a war veteran decorated with many military honors; her father was killed in the Battle of Moscow. Daughter Svetlana lives in Germany and helps Raisa to survive on a small pension. She dreams of the Czech Republic and often talks about how beautiful Prague is.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
Picture description: IRINA SYSHCHYKOVÁ (42). Irina works as a receptionist in Žitomir. She is divorced with a 12 year-old daughter. She would like to live in the Czech Republic for a longer period of time and so she is trying to improve her Czech. Without a language examination she won’t be able to get a permanent residence in her old country.
Series description: From the series The Eternal Return of Czechs from Volhynia. Zitomir, Malinovka, May - June 2014 “A long time ago they arrived by train, horses or on foot. After the abolishment of serfdom in Russia in 1861, tsar Alexander II of Russia offered land and tax relief to Czechs who wanted to leave what was then Austria. They left in several waves, to a place called Volhynia, which nowadays is a part of western Ukraine. They were good, hardworking people; they founded schools, breweries, firemen’s brigades and entire villages. After the fall of tsardom and with the arrival of the Great War, Bolshevik revolution and other chaotic events, they tried to get involved in the creation of Czechoslovakia. Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, who was to become the future president of Czechoslovakia, created from the original Czech brigades the basis of the legions which, together with the French, enabled the creation of independent Czechoslovakia. However, the Second World War disrupted the lives of the Volhynia Czechs. They found themselves in the middle of a dramatic confrontation between several armies: the Wehrmacht, Bolsheviks and Ukrainian nationalists. It was at that time that the idea of return to their country of origin was born and after the war some people started to go back. This idea regularly repeats itself. It was topical after the Chernobyl disaster, when many left. And now, when Ukraine faces another war, it’s become topical again.”
Author: Filip Jandourek, Lenka Grabicová
