autor Tomki Němec

After ten years, I am self-publishing a brand-new book: Václav Havel – Tomki Němec, *Post Scriptum*.

*Post Scriptum*, or “what was written afterward,” is my most comprehensive photography book to date, accompanied by my own text and captions.

Across 372 pages, you’ll find 185 black-and-white, double-page photographs. Of these, 170 are new and have never been published in book form. In addition to the photographs, the book includes my own introductory text about my “journey to Václav Havel.”

Although I thought my archive had nothing new to offer—that I’d gone through it countless times and shown everything—the following sentence served as my inspiration:

“Take those photos out of the boxes and see the light of day, bro…”

From March to September 2026, I sat poring over the archive, selecting photos, putting together mockups, searching, consulting with others, scanning, printing previews, not sleeping, not going anywhere, and gaining three kilos…

Once again, I’m self-publishing the book—at my own expense—and it won’t be part of regular book distribution; it will be available solely and exclusively through my e-shop.

If you pre-order it, it’ll help me gauge the level of interest in the book. In return, you’ll get it on better terms until its release (October 2026).

I hope you’ll enjoy it.

Tomki Němec, September 2026

P. S.: Pre-orders for the book “Václav Havel – Tomki Němec, Post Scriptum” are available at a special discounted price until its release in October 2026.Orders containing this book will be shipped only after the book is back in stock. If you would also like to order other items from my e-shop and receive them sooner, please place a separate order for those items.

Miloš Forman with Martina Formanová and Jan Tříska with Karla Chadimová walk through the gardens of the White House on their way to a formal dinner hosted by U.S. President George W. Bush, held on the occasion of the state visit of President Václav Havel to the United States.

Washington, D.C., USA, 2002

Departure, Cabo da Roca, Portugal, December 14, 1990

Perhaps only two minutes—maybe even less—separated the making of this photograph, taken on the same beach at the westernmost point of Europe, from the moment when Václav Havel reached the sea and was surprised by a breaking wave.

From time to time it happens that I press the camera shutter and my heart starts pounding, because I know that it’s there. When I photographed the president walking away, leaving his footprints in the sand, from the very first instant I pressed the shutter I wished for the impossible—that the moment when symbolism would turn into reality would never come.

With Václav Havel’s departure “up there,” this photograph has quite possibly become my best-known image.

Václav Havel — Departure, Cabo da Roca, Portugal, December 14, 1990