Born in the Czech village of Ředhošť in 1946. In 1967, he began studying at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Czech Technical University in Prague. After graduating as a civil engineer in 1973, he immediately started working as a “freelance” photographer. However, it was only in 1989 that he was able to begin publishing most of the pictures he had taken in previous years. He was a founding member of the Signum Photo Group and, in 1996, became a member of the Hamburg Bilderberg Agency. In 2006, he established Jakura Publishing. Kučera is the recipient of numerous awards and international recognitions, and lives in Prague.
