The best photo exhibition of this year is Evocative by Libuše Jarcovjáková

London – At the top of this year's best photography exhibitions list compiled by the British newspaper The Guardian is the exhibition by Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková titled Evokativ. This year, she presented it at the photography festival in the French city of Arles. Libuše Jarcovjáková's photographs rawly capture everyday life in normalization-era Prague of the 70s and 80s. The exhibition is also accompanied by a book of the same name.

"In the 70s and 80s, Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková tirelessly documented her unrestrained life during a period of political repression. The result, captured in black-and-white photographs, was one of the greatest discoveries of this year's photography festival in Arles," wrote the British newspaper about the exhibition Evokativ. It added that Jarcovjáková brilliantly captured both the hedonism and self-destructive tendencies of the era's underground in her images.

Jarcovjáková teaches photography at the Higher Professional School of Graphic Arts and the Secondary Industrial School of Graphic Arts on Hellichova Street in Prague, but her own work has only gained public recognition in the last decade. In 2017, she was awarded the title of Personality of Czech Photography by the Czech Association of Professional Photographers. An international breakthrough in her career came with an invitation to the prestigious photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles in southern France, where this summer she presented her extensive solo exhibition Evokativ.