On February 20 of this year, 70 years passed since the death of the traveller, writer, photographer, collectioner and adventurer in the best sense of the word - Enrique Stanko Vráz. His origin and youth have been up to now covered with doubts. The first documents relate only to the first journey of Vráz outside Europe. Since 1880, Vráz lived in Africa - in Marocco, Gambia and on the Gold Coast (modern Ghana), where he started to photograph. After a short stay on the Canary Islands he headed for South America and decided to transverse it in the equatorian part. This goal he completed successfully. After this, he travelled between America and Europe, he visited Japan, New Guinea, Thailand, China, Korea, Siberia. Then he again started for South America and for Mexico. During all his trips Vráz made photos. Some of his photographs, preserved today in the Náprstek Museum, are absolutely unique. Vráz perceived photography as a natural media for documentation, he placed its informative value above the emotional. The most frequent topics of his photographs were architecture and its details, nature, landscape and especialy the recordings of the everyday life. These photos have a high documentary value because of the place and the time of origin and also because of the fact that Enrique Stanko Vráz was a sensitive observer that wanted to utilize the photography to informe about the life in the distant, strange lands.