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Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech–French photographer.

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My photographs are proof of what happened. When I go to Russia, sometimes I meet ex-soldiers. . . They say, 'We came to liberate you. . . . ' I say: 'Listen, I think it was quite different. I saw people being killed. ' They say: 'No. We never. . . no shooting. No. No. ' So I can show them my Prague 1968 photographs and say, 'Listen, these are my pictures. I was there. ' And they have to believe me.

Believe, Came, Happened, People, Photography, Thinking

What matters most to me is to take photographs; to continue taking them and not to repeat myself. To go further, to go as far as I can.

Further, Photographer, Photographs, Photography, Take, What Matters

I don't like captions. I prefer people to look at my pictures and invent their own stories.

Look, Looks, People, Photography, Stories

I photograph only something that has to do with me, and I never did anything that I did not want to do. I do not do editorial and I never do advertising. No, my freedom is something I do not give away easily.

Advertising, Away, Freedom, Giving, Photography, Want

The changes taking place in this part of Europe are enormous and very rapid. One world is disappearing. I am trying to photograph what's left. I have always been drawn to what is ending, what will soon no longer exist.

Enormous, Europe, Part, Photograph, Photography, Trying

The maximum, that is what has always interested me.

Interested, Maximum

I don't pretend to be an intellectual or a philosopher. I just look.

Intellectual, Look, Looks, Philosopher, Photography, Pretend

Sometimes I photograph without looking through the viewfinder. I have mastered that well enough, it is almost as if I were looking through it.

Enough, Photograph, Photographer, Photography, Sometimes, Viewfinder

When I photograph, I do not think much. If you looked at my contacts you would ask yourself: "What is this guy doing?" But I keep working with my contacts and with my prints, I look at them all the time. I believe that the result of this work stays in me and at the moment of photographing it comes out, without my thinking of it.

Believe, Look, Photography, Stays, Thinking, Time

If a picture is good, it tells many different stories.

Different, Stories, Ifs, Good, Picture

My work has no theme. I don't care if my photographs get published, and I have no interest in the news. But the invasion of Prague was not news, it was my life.

Care, Interest, News, Prague

I never stay in one country more than three months. Why? Because I was interested in seeing, and if I stay longer I become blind.

Become, Country, Months, Photography, Three

I would like to see everything, look at everything, I want to be the view itself.

Photography, Views, Looks, Everything, Like, See