Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mr. Šolc was 98 years old when he died this spring. He has been a widower for the past 5 years. For almost all his life he lived in a large Prague apartment building built by his father in the 1930s. In the apartment, where were original, leaking windows and poor central heating, he often had to get more dressed. 17th January 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mr. Šolc was 98 years old when he died this spring. He has been a widower for the past 5 years. For almost all his life he lived in a large Prague apartment building built by his father in the 1930s. In the apartment, where were original, leaking windows and poor central heating, he often had to get more dressed. 17th January 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mrs. Fabiánová lived in a small house beside the railway tracks near Kladno. Because of poor health, she even did not leaving her home, where it had to heat in the stove. So therefore she did not heat. Two weeks after the picture was taken, she was found unconscious and died after being transferred to the hospital. 18th January 2019, Kladno District, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mrs. Fabiánová lived in a small house beside the railway tracks near Kladno. Because of poor health, she even did not leaving her home, where it had to heat in the stove. So therefore she did not heat. Two weeks after the picture was taken, she was found unconscious and died after being transferred to the hospital. 18th January 2019, Kladno District, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mrs. and Mr. Bendl were mother and son and lived together all their lives on a small estate in the district of Kladno. In a very modest household they drowned the most often collected wood or brown coal. Mrs. Bendlová died this spring. 18th January 2019, Kladno District, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mrs. and Mr. Bendl were mother and son and lived together all their lives on a small estate in the district of Kladno. In a very modest household they drowned the most often collected wood or brown coal. Mrs. Bendlová died this spring. 18th January 2019, Kladno District, Czech Republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mr. Smolka is homeless. Last 6 months lives in the old greenhouse with other 4 people without any warming. 16th January 2019, Prague, Czech republic

Author: Anna Šolcová

Picture description: Energy poverty: Up to a quarter of Czech households are threatened by energy poverty. The main vulnerable groups are pensioners, who pay for the heating of large apartments, where the whole family use to live, rural households, single parents and the unemployed, who live in houses or flats with high energy losses and, of course, homeless people. The series of photographs was created for the media promotion of organization Ashoka, which announced a public tender for the best project to help improve the conditions of these people.

Series description: Mr. Smolka is homeless. Last 6 months lives in the old greenhouse with other 4 people without any warming. 16th January 2019, Prague, Czech republic

Author: Anna Šolcová