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Jindřich Štreit

Jindřich Štreit was born on 5 September 1946 in Vse- tin. Since 1967 he has been living at Sovinec in North Moravia, Czech Republic. Between the years 1990-2003 he taught externally in the Department of Photography at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Music and Drama in Prague. Since 1991 he has been working in the Institute of Creative Photography at the Arts and Sciences Faculty of the Silesian University in Opava. He is the author of almost tivo dozen documentary photography books. Since the year 1967 he has had several hundred solo exhibitions and he has taken part in a vast number of group exhibitions all over Europe and beyond. Jindrich Streit' photographs are housed in prominent public collections in Europe, the United States of America, and in Japan.

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VILLAGE IS A GLOBAL WORLD

Jindřich Štreit , the photographer, found his way into the mind of the general public as early as the “8os with his documentary photographs of country life from the Bruntál region, which now belong to the history of world photography. In his work a major role is ascribed to an intimate knowledge of the milieu and to his ability to understand interpersonal relations. In the ‘gos he started applying a similar view of the “global village” in his prints from abroad, e.g. from France, Austria, Hungary, England, Russia, Japan and other countries. Jindřich Štreit amazes us by his incredible ability to see what most of us either do not notice or do not want to notice at all.
His sense for topical social phenomena has brought him in the last decade to photographing a variety of social backgrounds where a man and his environment play a leading role. The first comprehensive profile ever of Streit introduces his work over a span of almost forty years. Mr. Tomás Pospèch, its main creator, has naturally chosen photographs for it that accentuate the rural setting. Thanks to a joint effort of the whole team of authors, the Gallery of Visual Arts (Galerie vitvarného umènî) in Ostrava and of the Museum of Arts (Muzeum umèni) Olomouc, the profle is accompanied by a retrospective on the photo- grapher’s life, which will have many a rerun both in the Czech Republic and abroad.