A boy next to a model of the sun during the Festival of the Planets in Brno on Aug. 8, 2023.
A group of people dance to music during the Khamoro World Roma Festival in Prague.
A girl feels the water from the fountain on her feet on a hot day in Čáslav on July 19, 2023.
Laura looks on while older girls in colorful dress dance in a circle around her in Prague on June 3, 2022. This parade is part of Khamoro, a week-long Romani festival. Khamoro (Romani for “sunshine”) has taken place in Prague since 1999 and is the world’s largest and best-known professional Romani festival.
View of Charles Bridge and Prague Castle through a window in the Old Town Bridge Tower in Praha, Česká republika on July 20, 2023.
A man and child look upon statues lining the street leading to Chrám svaté Barbory (St. Barbara's Church) in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic on June 22, 2022.
A woman walks down the stairs at Kostel Nanebevzetí Panny Marie a svatého Jana Křtitele (Church of the Assumption of Our Lady and St. John the Baptist) in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic on June 22, 2022.
A man waits for the metro in Prague on June 12, 2022.
A man plays an upright bass during the Khamoro World Roma Festival in Prague on June 3, 2022.
Zuzana Masatova (middle) and Zuzana Klimova (right) speak with their teacher after riding in a canoe down a section of the Vltava river in Český Krumlov on June 16, 2022. They were on a school trip from their hometown of Tábor.
Kateřina Karešová (left) along with Tom Cortés (right) and Štěpán Krtička (not pictured) played various English-language songs during the festival "Praha Žije Hudbou" (“Prague lives by music”) on June 4, 2022. Karešová told me that some of her favorite artists include Lana Del Ray, Florence + the Machine and Lorde.
Two people stand on Kaple Božího těla (Corpus Christi Chapel) in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic on June 22, 2022.