EPOS

  • Emanuele Ruggiero

In 1967, photographers Jiří Horák, Rostislav Košťál, František Maršálek and Petr Sikula, together with author Ladislav Plch, formed the group EPOS, first as a documentary photography project, but that would develop into staged photography inspired in fashion shots and new wave cinema from the late 60's and early 70's , becoming a strong portrait of the so called Czechoslovak “Big Beat generation” during the period of normalization after the Warsaw Pact Invasion. 50 years later, the same group of artists reunites to re-enact some of their most representative photographs, returning to the same places and meeting the same people who featured on them, while sharing their memories and stories in the whole process, being a different way to understand life in the artistic underground of the political situation of Czechoslovakia's Normalisation in the 1970