Having worked with Henri Cartier-Bresson and being part of the world's most respected photographic agency, Magnum, Josef Koudelka is one of the big names in photography. He made his break-through when capturing the invasion of Russian troops into former Czechoslovakia in 1968, giving the world a close insight in what happened on demonstrations and in the streets those days.

Koudelka, who was born in Moravia in 1938, is also well known for other big projects, which he pursued over years of time: for example Gypsies and Chaos, both milestones of photography. The exhibition in Ljubljana's Jakopič Gallery will present another of his long-term works, depicting archeological sites all over the Mediterranean. Between 1991 and 2012, Josef Koudelka completed a long journey around nineteen countries, stopping at over two hundred Greek and Roman archaeological sites.

The photos in the exhibition called Vestiges are shot on a panoramic camera, that Koudelka uses quite frequently and they are arranged, as if you would be walking through an excavation site, to give the visitor an even stronger feeling of being on the spot. Before Koudelka, nobody had attempted to make such a comprehensive photographic record of these historical vestiges with so much persistence and so little assistance. They show glimpses of an old, forgotten world, a world that mankind could loose soon if it doesn't pay attention.