"The Tap Tap" ist eine bekannte und sehr erfolgreiche tschechische Formation mit überwiegend behinderten und auch nicht behinderten Musikern, gegründet 1998 von dem Sozialpädagogen Simon Ornest.

World Dog Show 2017 in Leipzig, Germany. Over 31,000 dogs from 73 nations came together from 8-12 November 2017 in Leipzig for the biggest dog show in the world.

Rudy was born on the 01.01.2017. He is on a mission and wants to make the world a better place...Images and © // Rudy's best friends and flatmates.

Goalball is a team sport designed specifically for athletes with a vision impairment. Participants compete in teams of three, and try to throw a ball that has bells embedded in it into the opponents' goal. The ball is thrown by hand and never kicked. Using ear-hand coordination, originating as a rehabilitation exercise, the sport has no able-bodied equivalent (Wikipedia). For about a year I followed the Czech Paralympic team in Goalball.

"I moved to Prague, the 'Golden City', in 1994 to study at the Academy of Art. It was a mere five years after the Velvet Revolution and the 'City of a hundred spires' was a very different place then. Decades of communist rule still cast a long shadow over the city and its inhabitants and many of the historical buildings had been left to rot. The city was a jumble of sooty dereliction, blackened by decades of coal fired heating and many of inner city buildings needed wooden supports to hold up walls and facades..." // more at PANOS.co.uk

Prof. Mgr. Jindřich Štreit during is exhibition opening in Lovosice, Czech Republic. Jindra was our teacher in the 1990s at the Art Academy and we are deeply thankful for all he taught us, especially to try to understand life, the human condition, ourselves and to document it. Thank you ! ❤️

»I've been living in Prague for 26 years. On March 11th, 2020 I left Prague for Oberursel near Frankfurt to visit my parents because my father got very sick. On March 12th, the Czech Republic declared a state of emergency and closed the borders. My weekend visit expanded to two months and I took care of my ill father together with my mother. Corona has made caring for a sick person at home extremely complicated, plus there is the constant fear of bringing the virus home...« March 11th to May 6th, 2020⁠. ©Björn Steinz | 06/2020

Drone images from around Lysa nad Labem in Czech Republic.