Marketa Luskacova

Marketa Luskacova is a Czech born photographer, who has lived and worked in London since 1975. She is well known for her early photography of Pilgrims and Mountain Village Šumiac in Slovakia, exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 1983.

All throughout her life in Britain she has photographed people in the East End, her work from this part of London was first exhibited at Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1991. Her photographs from Spitalfields were also exhibited at Tate Britain in 2018, together with works from her London Street Musicians, By the Sea series and her early works from Slovakia. More recently Luskacova’s By the Sea was exhibited at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol in 2019.

She has extensively photographed children in Britain, and in 1989 her photographs from this body of work were exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green. In 1998, a larger selection of her series On Children was exhibited at Stills Gallery in Sydney and at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool. Since the establishment of democracy, Luskacova has been returning annually to the Czech Republic to photograph the carnivals happening around the country in an ongoing series of work.

Marketa Luskacova has exhibited widely, with her works are held in many public collections. A number of catalogues of her works have been published including: PILGRIMS (1983), PHOTOGRAPHS FROM SPITALFIELDS (1991), UNKNOWN REMEMBERED (1998), ON DEATH AND HORSES AND OTHER PEOPLE (2010). Additionally she has had the following books published: MARKETA LUSKACOVA (2001), MARKETA LUSKACOVA PHOTOGRAPHS 1964-2014 (2014), TO REMEMBER – LONDON STREET MUSICIANS 1975-90 (2016), BY THE SEA (2019) and CHISWICK WOMEN’S AID, 1976-1977 (2020).