First Jarní báseň – a book, happening in the woods near Útěchov, 3 April 1980

First Jarní báseň – a book, happening in the woods near Útěchov, 3 April 1980

Václav Štěpánek (on the left) as a hiker in Kančí louka near river Oslava, 1980

Václav Štěpánek at a shepherd's hut in mountain range Bjelasica (Montenegro), 1982

Václav Štěpánek, graduation at Faculty of Arts of then Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, today and originally Masaryk University, June 1983

With parents Ludmila and Vratislav and sister Anna after graduation, 1983

Václav Štěpánek (left) and Lieutenant Vladimir Valko in compulsory military service, exercise Štít, military area Lešť near Krupina, 1984

Václav Štěpánek (third from left) as the leader of the military ensemble Radost of the military garrison in Lešany at the competition in Kroměříž, May 1984

From left Miroslav Štrych, Alena Škrdlíková, Libor Jan, Václav Štěpánek and Jaroslav Ungermann, Národopisné slavnosti Brněnska in Troubsko, 1986

Václav Štěpánek (first from left) as a band member at a tour of Slovácký krúžek to Aviano in Italy, 1986

Václav Štěpánek (with violin, second from right), discussions of the Institute of Geography of the Academy of Sciences of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in the cellar of the Augustinian Monastery in Old Brno, 2nd half of the 1980s

Václav Štěpánek's father Vratislav as the newly elected Bishop of Brno of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, 1989

Václav Štěpánek (left) as editor and war correspondent of Lidová demokracie; writing a report in the war zone Dvor na Uni, at the contact between the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina and the rest of Croatia during the break-up of Yugoslavia. Reports were sent by fax or dictated on the telephone; editor Kristian Chalupa next to him, July 1991

Václav Štěpánek (left) as editor and war correspondent of the Lidová demokracie, next to a local resident and one of the soldiers of the Croatia militia; at lunch on the front line, Kozibrod village near the Una river, 1991

Václav Štěpánek (second from right) as editor and war correspondent of the Lidová demokracie, next to editor Antonín Hošťálek and Siniša Njegovan Stárek, member of the Croatian parliament for the Czech minority, Pakrac, 1992

Lidová demokracie - Václav Štěpánek, (right) with Libor Jan, the head of the Brno editorial office, and dissident and actress at Divadlo na provázku Eva "Truda" Vidlářová at a pre-election meeting of the Communists, 1992

Václav Štěpánek (centre) as editor of Lidová demokracie with exiled writer Antonín Kratochvil and editor of the cultural section and poet Tomáš Mazáč at a reception on the roof of the Lidová demokracie editorial office in the Běhounská Street passage, 1992

At a shepherd's hut below the Petros peak in the Chornohora mountains (Subcarpathian Rus), 1992

As editor of Lidová demokracie - with Rudolf Firkušný on the occasion of his receiving an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University, 1993

Václav Štěpánek, right, as editor of Lidová demokracie. While writing a report on Moravian Highlands pubs. Kadov, U Janečků pub, 1993

Václav Štěpánek aVáclav Štěpánek as godfather at the christening of his nephew Tobias, next to his sister Anna and her husband Lászlo Bujdosó, 1995, 1995

Mowing the meadows on the Bílé potoky near Valašské Klobouky; the mowing is organized by the Základní organizace Českého svazu ochránců přírody Kosenka from Valašské Klobouky, 1995

As a freelance editor interviewing Serbian opposition leader Vuk Drašković during anti-government protests, January 1996

As an editor of the magazine Časopis pro ochranu přírody a krajiny Veronica during a reportage in the Opava river valley near Vrbno pod Pradědem after a devastating flood, summer 1997

As the new mayor of the Slovácký krúžek in Brno, speaking at a festival in Cahul, Moldova, 1999