The 29th volume of the Fototorst series. Tomki Němec (1963) is one of the leading Czech documentarians and photojournalists. He began to make a name for himself in the 1980s, especially on the Czech unofficial photography scene. In the early 1990s, he was the personal photographer of Czechoslovak President Václav Havel - and in 2001 he published an author's book, which is a selection of images from Havel's first presidential term. He was awarded twice in the World Press Photo competition. He has published in a number of Czech and foreign periodicals. The black-and-white documentary works on which Němec's free work and this book are based, are created both in the Czech Republic and abroad. Their subject is almost always an "ordinary" person in their everyday situations, which say something about their personal fate, but also about the history and politics that weigh on them. A characteristic feature of Tomki Němec's works is compositional precision.