24 hours in Prague

This picture was shot at half past four a.m. on the Charles Bridge.

One of the busiest and most photographed sights in Prague, thronged

with tourists all over the clock, it is very difficult to shoot this

place differently, to boldly go where no one has gone recently, as the

saying goes. I spent two or three hours on the bridge waiting for the

pre-dawn light. However, as the old man walked along the bridge,

returning home from a pub where he has spent the night, I suddenly

realized that photographically, the bridge was not important. It is

the feeling of the place, the romance and the mysticism that captures

the imagination of the millions of visitors, the idea of the place.

And, somehow, with a single old man in view, the idea of the place

looked much more tangible, as if the city and the old man silently

communicated in the language that no one else understood.