Vaclav Jirsa (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1938) was educated as an engineer and worked as a constructor in the Czech dockyard after his graduation. In 1962, he began photographing for the factory magazine and for the daily newspaper Vecerni Praha, which he joined in 1964 as a staff photographer. He mostly shot sports and music life in Prague. In 1989, he moved to the newspaper Rude Pravo, the former Communist newspaper, which was later transformed in Pravo, where he has been working since then.
