His pictures of the events became dramatic international symbols, and in 1969 the “anonymous Czech photographer” was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal for photographs requiring exceptional courage. (Prague Photographer) for fear of reprisal to him and his family. Koudelka’s negatives were smuggled out of Prague into the hands of the Magnum agency, and were published anonymously under the initials P. He witnessed and recorded the military forces as they invaded Prague. He returned to Czechoslovakia just two days before the Soviet invasion in August of 1968. In the 196os he lived with and photographed the Gypsies of Slovakia, and later Romania, photographing them with an intimacy only gained through their total acceptance of him as one of their own. He was born in the Czech Republic, and made his first photographs there while a student in the 1950s. Josef Koudelka, a nomad at heart has wandered around Europe with his 35mm Leica and little else.
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