01 / People
Faces in the
everyday flow.
A glance across a carriage. An unguarded expression. A brief encounter between strangers. The people who make a city more than just its buildings.
Explore peoplePeople. Streets. Moments.
A long-term photographic diary of everyday life.
Made mostly on the streets of Prague.
Photographs & observations by Jakub
Over twenty years. One ongoing story.
Over twenty years. One ongoing story.
About the project
Over twenty years.
Still looking.
Jakub / photographer
For more than twenty years, I have been photographing everyday life, mainly on the streets of Prague. People passing by, brief encounters and ordinary scenes form a growing photographic diary of the city.
I am drawn to the small things: a gesture, an expression, the way people share a space. Street and documentary photography, mostly in black and white, is how I keep a record of them.
More about the project & its authorWays into the archive
Three words. Many stories.
Faces in the
02 / Streets
A familiar city.
A different view.
Passages, pavements and places in between. I return to familiar streets and look for the changing relationship between the city and the people moving through it.
Explore the streets
03 / Moments
Here for a second.
Kept in a photograph.
A small coincidence. An unexpected gesture. A scene that comes together and is gone again. Everyday life rarely waits for a second look.
Explore the momentsThe photographic diary
New to the archive.
Recent additions, including photographs made years ago.
A diary can grow backwards, too.
Notes from the streets
Beyond the frame.
01Why I return to
the same streets.
On the projectThe places may be familiar. The people, the light and what happens between them never quite repeat.
Why I return to
the same streets.
On the projectFamiliar streets do not necessarily lead to familiar photographs. A place can stay almost unchanged while the small scenes within it are different every time. Someone pauses, someone looks back, two people cross each other’s path.
For a long-term photographic project, returning is part of the process. It leaves room for noticing details that would be easy to miss on a first visit — and for seeing the city through the people who use it.
02What catches
my eye.
On lookingA gesture, a little tension, an unexpected connection. A few thoughts on noticing ordinary life.
What catches
my eye.
On lookingSometimes it is a gesture. Sometimes it is the relationship between two people, or between a person and the space around them. Often the scene is entirely ordinary until one small detail makes me look again.
A photograph can hold that relationship without explaining everything about it. The frame offers a point of view while leaving room for the viewer’s own reading.
03A photograph,
years later.
From the archiveLooking through older images is another way of walking through the city — and seeing what has changed.
A photograph,
years later.
From the archiveAn archive is more than a sequence of dates. Returning to older photographs brings back details that may have seemed unremarkable at the time: a shop window, a way of dressing, an everyday scene that is no longer quite the same.
A newly added photograph does not have to be a recently made photograph. Keeping the date of the image separate from the date of its addition helps a long-running diary tell both stories.