Jan Šibík / Stories

BURGRAVE'S HOUSE AT KLENOVÁ CASTLE
7 Sept. – 31 Oct. 2013

BURGRAVE'S HOUSE AT KLENOVÁ CASTLE
7 Sept. – 31 Oct. 2013
Photojournalist Jan Šibík has been the main photographer for the Czech weekly magazine Reflex since 1993. During his long career, he has been on more than 200 assignments to all corners of the world. He photographed the end of communism in Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the bloody downfall of the Ceauşescu regime in Romania. He witnessed massacres in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and famine in Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. He felt the aftermath of earthquakes in Armenia and Turkey and the exodus of Iraqi Kurds to Iran. He covered the wars in Afghanistan, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Abkhazia, Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Africa, and Iraq, genocide in Rwanda, and refugee camps in Tanzania, Sudan, Haiti, Angola and Somalia.
In recent years, Šibík has focused on the conflict in Palestine. He spent all of 2004 photographing the AIDS epidemic in Ukraine.
In 2005, he photographed the terrible aftermath of the tsunami in Sri Lanka, the bizarre state of affairs in communist North Korea, the funerals of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican and of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Video Jitka Kličková

Foto Jiří Strašek