Bohemia. Book Two Vertical Images by Peter Leiss
The 188 images that make up the two volumes of the Bohemia books
120 horizontal images and 68 vertical images were all taken in the Kingdom of Bohemia 1975, 1979, 1987, 1990, 1992 and 2005.

The Bohemia experience always accelerates my desire to pick up my camera and walk through its embedded layered terrain. It is not the decisive moment in this case, but finding the rhythm in a wordless narrative, with intermittent still and silent moments. In that state comes the sphere of authenticity outside the technical. Taking something from the original, changing its context to elevate towards a freedom.

My favorite travel quote by Kafka provides perspective on this Bohemian state, ‘I always enter and leave the suburb with a weak mixed feeling of anxiety, of abandonment, of sympathy, of curiosity, of conceit, of joy in travelling, of fortitude, and return with pleasure, seriousness, and calm, especially from Žižkov.’