For the successful Czech architect Pavel Nasadil photography is an inner joy, indeed a necessity, through which he effectively counterbalances the restrictive rules and collective nature of his profession. Photography gives him the freedom of a personal approach to the subject, the possibility of deep emotional experience, and the chance to transcend the captured reality in meaning. This significantly contributes to the exceptional impact of all his thematic projects to date, which are fundamentally focused on people and their environment, whether portraying young prisoners in West Africa, life in the controversial Donbas region, the distinctive atmosphere of London’s Soho, or others. Delta is the result of Nasadil’s journeys to the Mississippi River Delta and its wider surroundings—places where the blues was born, influencing the style and life paths of many great musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and even Elvis Presley, and where the spirit of the American South still pulses today. It is a remarkable spirit shaped by a turbulent history formed by the original Indigenous inhabitants, European settlers, and above all by the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and their music as an expression of their lived experience. Pavel Nasadil’s photographs capture the lives of ordinary people, the landscape, and the culture of this unique region, forming an emotionally charged visual essay, or even a poem, about a place that is more a state of mind than a mere geographical area. One is even reminded of the well-known saying of the Czech photography classic Josef Sudek when exceptional circumstances aligned for his photograph: “And the music plays…” Datum und Uhrzeit Mon—Fri 10:00—20:00 Sat—Sun 11:00—18:00