Photographer Bohumil Dobrovolský who captured 1968 invasion has died at 89

Photographer Bohumil Dobrovolský, who was best known for his photographs of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, has died at the age of 89. News of his passing was announced on Facebook by Czech Press Photo. As a thirty-three-year-old amateur photographer Dobrovolský went into the streets of Prague and recorded the tragic atmosphere of the first day of the invasion on 21 August 1968 on seven films. "I am not a hero, it was only indignation, defiance and my home environment that made me free of fear, he said in an interview for Czech Radio years later.