| ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL was born in 1947 in Lovisice,
Czechoslovakia. He has earned numerous awards including the Infinity Award from the
International Center of Photography (1991), the Leica Medal of Excellence (1994),
and the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (1998). His 1997 book Broken Dream presents
twenty years of work documenting Eastern Europe during the Cold War. His forthcoming
book entitled Mercy will be published by The Monacelli Press in 2000. |

Antonin
Kratochvil, Guangdong Province, 1978 |