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Moravian photographer Vojta Dukát (born 1947) went into exile in the Netherlands after Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviet Army in 1968. This monograph displays his intimate, black-and-white images of people conducting mundane, ritualistic tasks.

It is frustrating for me to look at Dukát's photographs because I can't name "it" - that which is distinctive about them, what unites them and how they are different from Frank, from Klein, from Koudelka. They are about people - working class mostly. […] The pictures are hard, but not unkind. […] Social concerns and human emotions are paramount and these are complex […] His subjects are in public but with private thoughts and passions; and conducting tasks performed so daily as to be ritual for that person. Photographers, curators, editors, and critics can see these pictures and recognize how hard it is to make such simple pictures. The public looks through the craft onto the subject as onto a mirror of their own experience.Anne Wilkes Tucker, 1989