The author, whose identity had been long concealed, captured shock, misery and the futile struggle for freedom as well as irony and unity on Prague streets in the days after the Warsaw Pact troops seized the country.

Many of the photographs on display — Koudelka took thousands of snaps — were published for the first time. The prize-winning photographer, who left Czechoslovakia in 1970, admitted publicly to taking the photos 16 years after the event, in 1984.

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