For years the Czech pair Alena Dvorakova and Viktor Fischer have photographed the lives of ordinary people in different regions in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America. They focus chiefly on the humanitarian assistance from Catholic missions to the poor and ill. The source of inspiration for the project was the work of the nuns of the Czech Franciscan order. Over the past years they have been establishing new missions all around the world. With their photographs Dvorakova and Fischer hope to inspire average people to help their less fortunate fellows.

Alena Dvorakova (b. 1970, Czechoslovakia) and Viktor Fischer (b. 1967, Czechoslovakia) have worked together on photography projects since 1992. MISSIONS, which has also appeared in book form, has won many prizes in the Czech Republic over the past few years.