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In Conversation with...Markéta Luskačová
Tuesday, 2 June 2026 at 10:30 am
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Tuesday 2 June, Image: Balbooze / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license "I never liked the label documentary photographer. In a visual arts context the expressionist style is the one I feel closest to. But I consider myself simply a photographer." Markéta Luskačová We are delighted to announce a conversation, chaired by Colin Bossen and Claire MacDonald, and co-organised by Hana Navratilova, with the Czech photographer Markéta Luskačová, hosted by DUSC, the centre for Dissenting and Unitarian Studies at Harris Manchester College. Born in Prague in 1944, Markéta Luskačová, who graduated in sociology with a dissertation on pilgrims, began to document religious and cultural practices on the verge of erasure in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. Moving to Britain in 1975 she became fascinated by the life of London’s east end, working responsively with the people she met there and later in series of works including street musicians and homeless women. Innovative, poetic and even mysterious, from her early photographs of the Soviet invasion of 1968, through her images of people living on the margins of modern life, and of lives poised on the moment of change. Rev Dr Colin Bossen and Rev Dr Claire MacDonald are Unitarian ministers, arts writers and curators. Claire MacDonald is the former Artistic Director of Cambridge Darkroom Gallery and Chaplain and Ministry Tutor at Harris Manchester College. She is the founding Director of DUSC. Colin Bossen is currently a DUSC Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College. His new book The Political Theologies of Populism will be launched at the College on 25 May. He has known Marketa all his life. Tea and coffee will be served from. This event has been generously sponsored by Velehrad London. It is free and open to all. Book your place Harris Manchester College Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3TD +44 (0)1865 271006 Registered Charity (No. 1143086) Accessibility | Privacy
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Harris Manchester College, Mansfield Rd, Oxford OX1 3TD
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