The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

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.

When I first started to take photographs in Czechoslovakia, I met this old gentleman, this old photographer, who told me a few practical things. One of the things he said was, "Josef, a photographer works on the subject, but the subject works on the photographer."

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.

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

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.

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