The exhibition is organized by Czech Centre Tel Aviv in cooperation with Czech Embassy and The Torst Publishing House on the ocassion of Jerusalem Book Fair and Hebrew Book Week.

The whole series Portraits by Viktor Stoilov contains sixty photo portraits of Czechoslovak writers taken during the years 1988 - 1990. These writers belong to so called "unofficial literature" of the totalitarian Communist regime in the pre-1989 Czechoslovakia. Their books were published in exile or self-published. "Samizdat" was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. Creating and disseminating ideas and art that did not conform to an official ideology was considered to be an anti-state aktivity.

Viktor Stoilov is the founder and owner of The torst Publishing House, established in Prague in 1990. As he often says, he started this business in order to publish his photo series of dissident writers. The Torst became a renowned publishing house focusing among other things on books related to photography and art. Edition FotoTorst is a famous series of monographs about Czech photographers, including Alphonse Mucha, Josef Koudelka, Alexandr Hackenschmied, Miroslav Tichý, Antonín Kratochvíl or Josef Sudek.