• 1944 born in Prague
• 1958-1961 A Levels in Czech, Russian, Mathematics, History in Chrudim, Prague
• 1961-1967 degree in Sociology of Culture, Charles University, Prague
• 1966-1969 postgraduate course in photography, FAMU, Prague

Work

• 1968 became a freelance photographer, photographing:
• 1964-1972 Pilgrims in Slovakia
• 1967-1974 series from Šumiac, a mountain village in Slovakia
• 1968 Jazz Club Reduta, Prague
• 1970-1972 Divadlo za branou (Theatre Beyond the Gate), Prague
• 1972, 1973,1985 in Ireland
• 1972-2016 in East London, Spitalfields
• 1976-1980 Nomineé Photographer with Magnum Photo, Paris
• 1975-1990 London Street Musicians
• 1977 son Matthew Emanuel was born
• 1986-2000 Citizen 2000, Channel 4 programme documenting the life of twenty children in Britain
• 2000 Durham Cathedral & Chorister School, Britain
• 1998-2014 photographing children in the Czech Republic
• 1998-2018 photographing carnivals in the Czech Republic, especially those of the Roztoč group, Roztoky

Selected one woman shows

• 1971 Divadlo za branou (Theatre Beyond the Gate), Prague, CZ
• 1978 Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (+ Sirkka L. Kontinnen), GB
• 1983-1984 Victoria and AIbert Museum, London. GB (catalogue Pilgrims)
• 1985 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, GB
• 1986 Ksiaz, PL
• 1989 Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, London, GB
• 1989 Galeria Visor, Valencia, ES
• 1991 Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB (catalogue Photographs from Spitalfields)
• 1991 Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, GB
• 1991 Dům U Kamenného zvonu, GHMP, Prague, CZ
• 1992 Municipal House in Murcia, then Madrid, Salamanca, Jerez, Palma de Mallorca, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ES
• 1994 Staroměstská radnice, Prague, CZ
• 1994 Stills Gallery, Sydney, AU
• 1994 Divadlo Karla Pippicha, Chrudim, CZ
• 1995 Východočeská galerie, Pardubice, CZ
• 1996 Galerie 4, Cheb, CZ
• 1998 Stills Gallery, Sydney, AU (catalogue Unknown Remembered)
• 1999 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, GB
• 1999 EIi Lemberger Museum of Photography, Tel Hai, Galilee, IL
• 2000 Pražský dům fotografie, Prague, CZ
• 2001 Dom fotografie, Poprad, SK
• 2001 The British Council, Prague, CZ
• 2001 Galerie Fait et Cause, Paris, FR
• 2001 Focus Gallery, London, GB
• 2004 Muzeum, Soběslav, CZ
• 2011 Středočeské muzeum v Roztokách, CZ (catalogue On Death, Horses and Other People)
• 2011 Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, Ml, US
• 2013 Piper Gallery (+ Francis West), London, GB
• 2014 National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids. lA, US
• 2014 Leica Gallery, Prague, Cl (catalogue Photographs 1964-2014)
• 2015 Galeria 19, Bratislava, SK
• 2016 Latitude, Huelva, ES
• 2016 Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche, BE
• 2017 Czech Centre, Paris, FR
• 2017 Palacio de Pimentel, Valladolid, ES
• 2018 Czech Centre ,Munich,G
• 2018 -2019 Tate Britain , London , GB

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 1969 Fotografické cykly a seriály, Obecní dům, Prague, CZ
• 1972 Tři fotografové, Galerie umění Roudnice nad Labem (+ Ivo Gil, Pavel Štecha), CZ
• 1975 Women of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
• 1983 Personal Choice: A Celebration of Twentieth Century Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB
• 1989 Through the Looking Glass, Barbican, London, GB
• 1990 Spišské muzeum (+ Peter Župník, Janusz Moniatowicz), Levoča, SK
• 1993 An Historical Survey, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, US
• 1995 Luz y Tiempo, Centro Cultural del Arte contemporaneo, Mexico City, MX
• 1995 Der geduldige Planet, Zürich, CH
• 2000 Photography and Time, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB
• 2002 Česká a slovenská fotografia 80. a 90. rokov 20. Storočia, Dom umenia, Bratislava, SK
• 2003 Les choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, FR
• 2006 Closed Eyes, Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, DK
• 2008 Fotogenie identity, Paměť české fotografie, Pražský dům fotografle, Prague, CZ
• 2010-2011 Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,US
• 2012 Another London, Tate Britain, London, GB
• 2014 Witches and Wicked Bodies, Scotish National Gallery, GB
• 2016 Feminine!, Artinbox, Prague, CZ
• 2016-2017 In Your Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Filled with Joy, touring show, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
• 2017-2018 Collected Shadows, touring show, Hayward Gallery, London, GB
• 2018 Another Europe, Austrian Cultural Centre , London , GB
• 2018-19 Modern Nature, Hepworth Museum, Wakefield,GB
• 2018-19 Distinctly, Williamson Gallery, Merseyside,GB

Works In Public Collections

• Archive of Modern Conflict, London, GB
• The Collection of the Arts Council of Great Britain, London, GB
• Art Gallery, Benešov, CZ
• Arthur Andersen, London, GB
• Blbliotheque nationale de France, Paris, FR
• Brandts Museet for Fotokunst, DK
• Bruce Bernard Collection, GB
• Clifford Chance, London, GB
• Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, US
• Eric Franck Fine Art Collection, London, GB
• Foundation Cultural, Mexico City, MX
• FRAC Rhone-Alpes, FR
• George Eastman Museum Collection, Rochester, NY, US
• IVAM, Valencia, ES
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, IL
• James Hyman Collection, London , GB
• J.Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles , CA, USA
• Martin Parr’s Foundation, Bristol , GB
• Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, US
• Moravská galerie, Brno, CZ
• Museum of Art, Ein Harod, IL
• Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque, Binche, BE
• Museum of Modern Art New York, NY,US
• National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, AU
• National Media Museum, Bradford, GB
• National Portrait Gallery, London, GB
• Royal Festival Hall, London, GB
• Salamanca University, Salamanca, ES
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
• Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, GB ·
• Slovenská národná qaléria, Bratislava, SK
• Spišské museum, Levoča , SK
• Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
• Tate Britain, London, GB
• The British Council, Valencia, ES
• The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
• Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum, Prague, CZ
• University of Newcastle, AU
• Victoria and Albert Museum, London, GB
• Wilson Centre for Photography, London, GB