Just as the great Columbian painter Fernando Botero previously did, Antonin Kratochvil reconstructs the torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the time the images of ill-treatment caused a wave of indignation around the world, and stained the reputation of the United States. They called up memories for Antonin Kratochvil, a Czech refugee, whose father was tortured in Stalinist camps.

Photojournalist Antonin Kratochvil (b. 1947, Czechoslovakia), now living in New York, is one of the founders of the photo agency VII.