Burning Love: Israel Through the Lens of Karel Cudlín

The exhibition Burning Love: Israel Through the Lens of Karel Cudlín, organised by the Jewish Museum in Prague in collaboration with 400 ASA and curated by Michaela Sidenberg, presents a selection of nearly 200 photographs taken between 1996 and 2026.

The exhibition offers a long-term perspective on life in Israel, documenting both everyday situations and significant historical moments. Cudlín’s work focuses on the diversity of Israeli society and captures a wide range of social and cultural environments.

Through a consistent documentary approach, the photographs reveal situations marked by tension, vulnerability, and resilience, as well as moments of ordinary daily life. The exhibition is held on the occasion of the publication of Cudlín’s photographic book of the same title, which includes a text by Israeli journalist and writer Tsur Shezaf.

Karel Cudlín (b. 1960, Prague) is a Czech documentary photographer whose work has long focused on Jewish communities and societies in Central and Eastern Europe and Israel. His photographs have been widely published and exhibited internationally.