Internationally acclaimed photographer Josef Koudelka (b. 1938) graduated from Czech Technical University with a degree in engineering in 1961 and had his first photography exhibition that same year. He turned to photography full-time in 1967 and in 1968 captured an unforgettable eyewitness account of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet-led troops. Those images were published anonymously to protect Koudelka and he won the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Medal as "anonymous Czech photographer."
He fled to England in 1970 and begame a member of Magnum in 1971. Koudelka pursued projects across Europe that were later published as books, including Gypsies, Invasion, Chaos, and Exiles. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the Prix Nadar, Grand Prix Cartier-Bresson, and the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. His work has been exhibited at museums around the world including ICP, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Palais de Tokyo, Paris.