Identitäten, published by Kehrer Verlag in 2025, gathers the work of Jitka Hanzlová in a substantial volume accompanying her exhibition at Vienna’s Albertina. Across 240 pages, it brings together ten significant series alongside previously unpublished work, offering a broad account of a photographic practice shaped by displacement, recollection, and questions of belonging.

Hanzlová’s biography is an essential, but never merely explanatory, point of entry. Born in 1958, she left the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic for West Germany in 1982; the experience of exile informs the book’s sustained attention to memory and identity. The photographs do not reduce these themes to autobiography. Instead, they examine how a person, a place, and the surrounding world enter into unstable but intimate relations.

The sequence moves between landscapes, portraits, and the environments that hold them together. Rokytník (1990–1994) returns to the artist’s home village, while Forest (2000–2005) addresses the forest of her childhood. Portrait series including Bewohner (1994–1996) and Female (1997–2000) turn toward the individual and the conditions of their surroundings. Seen together, these bodies of work establish a productive tension between the specific and the universal, familiarity and estrangement, presence and recollection.

For collectors, the book’s value lies in this breadth and coherence: it is not a narrowly focused selection, but a carefully framed overview of recurring concerns across Hanzlová’s career, complemented by work not previously published. Its exhibition context, German-language presentation, hardcover format, and collaboration associated with Walter Moser make it a significant reference volume for readers following contemporary photographic approaches to portraiture, landscape, exile, and identity.