Demonstration of independent cultural association ARS at the beginning of 1990, Ivo Hucl (in the foreground on the left) and Jan Rampich. ARS was founded by Ivo Hucl together with Ivan Jáchim and Miroslav Anton at the end of 1989, the aim of the association was to coordinate activities of artists, writers, film-makers and musicians from Pilsen

Ivo Hucl with his friend Jura Dvořák during the concert of John Mayall in Polish Krakow 1980

Ivo Hucl in a club of the theatre in Cheb, reading of his own texts in 1990, he has published five collections of poetry and two books of essays so far, his book of short lyrical texts Prach prázdna (Dust of void) was nominated for the State Award for Literature

Ivo Hucl and Pavel Hauer in a joint exhibition Návrat ke kruhu (Return to the circle) in Maecenas Gallery in Pilsen in 1992

Ivo Hucl (on the left) with a musician Oldřich Janota, c 1992

Pavel Zajíček, a poet, musician and artist, founder of underground band DG 307 with whom Ivo Hucl (on the right) prepared several literal shows and as a curator took part in exhibitions and concerts of this underground band; Pavel Zajíček who founded DG 307 lived after involuntary emigration in 1980 in London where he recorded a single based on Eliot´s poem The Waste Land; coincidentally, the club where DG 307 plays now is in the same neighbourhood where he lived at that time

Ivo Hucl during his first business trip to Japan where he prepared Josef Váchal´s exhibition in City Gallery in Takasaki, 2008, photo by Jan Dienstbier

Ivo Hucl in Japanese Takasaki

Current friendship with Chinese dissidents Liao I-wu, I-wo Hucl (in the middle) and Lia-Sia in Bezejmenná Tea Room in Šťáhlavy, photo by Alžběta Huclová, 2018

With a Chinese dissident Lia Sia at the grave of Franz Kafka in Prague shortly after her release from house arrest in Beijing in 2018; Lia is a photographer, writer, Chinese dissident and the Nobel Prize laureate

Ivo Hucl in 1976 when he was fifteen years old

Josef Sokol with his mother, 1969

Josef Sokol in 2019

Josef Sokol with his wife and daughters, 1969

Little Josef with his father, Josef Sokol's native home, 1949

Ve školce, 1971

Hana Puchová, 1982

Hana Puchová (vpravo) na kluzišti, kolem roku 1980

M. Šaman with bishop emeritus František Radkovský at his 80th birthday celebration in Teplá Monastery (September 2019)

M. Šaman with bishop emeritus František Radkovský at his 80th birthday celebration in Teplá Monastery (September 2019)

Michal Šaman, a portrait

Mother vViera Markovičová - Záturecká (1910 - 1953)

Zdeněk Jirásek while serving in the army

Irena and Zdeněk Jirásek

A class photo