The Devil in Us

Jan Šibík

The Czech photojournalist Jan Šibík is always there with his camera when a political conflict or humanitarian catastrophe occurs somewhere in the world. His remarkable photographs, which have won numerous prizes, document world events of the past twenty years.
In black-and-white photographs, Jan Šibík tells the story of the end of socialism in Eastern Europe: of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, the downfall of the Ceaușescu regime in Romania. His photographs from the 1990s testify to the famines in Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia, to wars in Rwanda and Chechnya; they document the destructive force of a tsunami, the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Liberia; the earthquake in Haiti. More recent images portray the crisis in the Eastern Ukraine and refugees embarking on their treacherous path to Europe.
Šibík’s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in the Czech Republic and the rest of Europe, as well as in Africa. They will now be on view in Germany for the first time.