Included are Guyana, Bohemia, Beirut, Bolivia, Congo, Louisiana, Zimbabwe, Ecuador, Prague, Chernobyl, Angola, the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Iraq and New York City.

Antonin Kratochvil, born in 1947 in Czechoslovakia, is a founding member of VII, the esteemed cooperative picture agency. Over the past 25 years, his diverse assignments have taken him around the world. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Time, Conde Nast Traveler, GEO, Mother Jones, Smithsonian magazine, Natural History and the United Nations' Choices magazine. His other books are Broken Dream and Incognito.

Michael Persson was once a war correspondent. His essays have appeared in the Harvard University School of Journalism's Neiman Reports, The American Society for Free Speech and in Rethink: Cause and Consequences of September 11. This is his third collaboration with Kratochvil.

Deliberate desire describes Mother Russia's coldest credential. The emotion is at times cruel and other times wanton. It is a controlled dispassion that is, today, so apparent in the gilded circles of her "Golden Youth." The offspring of Russia's new Czars possess the suave indifference that is Mother Russia's true nature and that of her elite; a black mark of distinction worn like a beauty spot for maximum effect. It is a force that has existed without end-the foreplay equal to the climax, seduction dependent upon opulent wealth.

This is the first photo essay on Moscow nightlife: powerful, uncensored, beautiful, and arousing.

Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947, Czechoslovakia) is a founding member of VII, the esteemed cooperative picture agency. Over the past twenty-five years, his diverse assignments have taken him around the world. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, TIME, Conde Nast Traveler, GEO, Mother Jones, Smithsonian, Natural History, and the United Nations Choices magazine. His other books are Broken Dream, Incognito, and Vanishing.

Deliberate desire describes Mother Russia's coldest credential. The emotion is at times cruel and other times wanton. It is a controlled dispassion that is, today, so apparent in the gilded circles of her "Golden Youth." The off spring of Russia's new Czars possess the suave indifference that is Mother Russia's true nature and that of her elite; a black mark of distinction worn like a beauty spot for maximum effect. It is a force that has existed without end-the foreplay equal to the climax, seduction dependent upon opulent wealth.

This is the first photo essay on Moscow nightlife: powerful, uncensored, beautiful, and arousing.

Antonin Kratochvil (born 1947, Czechoslovakia) is a founding member of VII, the esteemed cooperative picture agency. Over the past twenty-five years, his assignments have taken him around the world and on diverse assignments. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, TIME, Conde Nast Traveler, GEO, Mother Jones, Smithsonian, Natural History, and the United Nations Choices magazine. His other books include Broken Dream, Incognito, and Vanishing.

Non-exploitive, brilliantly contemplative in a poignant presentation, Endure - Renewal from ground zero has been internationally awarded for its thoughtful, noncommercial creative approach and concept by the world's most prestigious design juries such as American Communications Arts and British Design & Art Direction Show.

The following is an excerpt from a book review written by Eileen E. Ganter, Editor, Media Via.

"This unusual and thought-provoking book incorporates the work of five photographers: Antonin Kratochvil of VII, Gilles Peress, Larry Towell and Alex Webb of Magnum Photos, and Carolina Salguero of Sipa Press. Their documentation spans September 11 through October 21, 2001 and delivers a message that is so subtle its power is easy to underestimate. Its sense of consciousness, however, is keenly evident and grows upon contemplation.

While a number of other noteworthy photographic books provide seismic intensity with their images of fleeing faces, dust and debris, Endure views the tragedy much as a solar eclipse. To stare directly at the sun is to overwhelm the sense of sight. To render the unrenderable power of its force is to view it obliquely. To bear the unbearable is to contemplate it in the mirror of humanity: art.

'It was my deep desire to create an introspectively eloquent lament of the 'day after,'" says Wajdowicz. "I wanted Endure to be cohesive and poetic, as opposed to a more chopped and disjointed catalog effect. Endure should come across as movie-like--that is, a sequence-- with still life 'flashbacks' scattered throughout; a journey is how I envisioned it."

Thus Endure's images show the less dramatic, but no less profound shifting of foundations, as human beings find their footings in an unimaginably unsettling time. The focus-- the point-- is the resiliency of what lives within flesh and blood, and not what dies inside an icon of steel."