Eva Fuka-Engle was born May 5,1927 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Eva Fuka was a very emotional photographer. A lot of Eva’s images were unsettling and often described as “puzzling.” Fuka started taking pictures at a young age saying “It was just a childhood game.” Her first camera was a Leica that her father gave her. She liked Canon the most as it was her first digital camera. She was born an artist. Her mother was a writer, her father was a painter, and her grandfather was one of the founders of a newspaper. During WWII she was studying at the State School of Graphic Arts in Prague. She witnessed Jewish schoolmates disappearing. She said “My first slightly more important pictures were when the Russians came.” Eva Fuka became the first Czech
