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Art: Photography Miroslav Tichý

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Czech artist Miroslav Tichý produced most of his oeuvre between 1950 and 1980, but it was not until the summer of 2005 that his work gained international recognition, when he received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d'Arles photography festival. The artist, who spent numerous years in prison camps during the Communist occupation of Eastern Europe, obsessively photographed the unsuspecting women of Brno in the present-day Czech Republic, using an unconventional camera made from tin cans and spectacle lenses taped together. The clandestine images collected here are all hauntingly beautiful, and many are rendered even more unique by Tichý's hand-painted frames and superimposed drawings.

– Lucy Davies

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