Her grandfather was a founder of the daily Czech newspaper Lidové noviny.

She married fellow-artist Vladimír Fuka in 1950, and gave birth to her only child, Ivana, in 1951.

[1] Fuka's artwork is characterized by surreal and melancholic effects, which she achieved by using her environment [6] to create unreal settings with a dreamlike atmosphere.

She ranks among the founding figures of Czech photography who introduced different approaches to the practice by taking advantage of her surroundings to attain particular effects between lights and shadows.

[7] In 1963 she published a monograph, an important step in her work as both photographer and woman artist, because photography was still struggling to be recognized in the world of art at the beginning of the sixties.