Josef Koudelka was born in Boskovice, Moravia on January 10,1938 . He is French and Czech. He is Czech photographer and began taking pictures at a really young age. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague and in Bratislava. For his career he gave up being a engineer and became a photographer. He went to Romania just a few days before the soviet union and took pictures and saw the military force while it was going on. His pictures had to be smuggled by the agency and were published anonymously in the Sunday times magazine, and thats when his pictures became famous and started to win awards for them. He has been working with a panoramic camera since 1986 and he has had more than a dozen books published and his recent was published in 2006. He resides in France and Prague and is continuing his work as a photographer.
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