Jindřich Štreit

Czech photographer and pedagogue (born 1946) Jindřich Štreit in 2007.

Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czech photographer and pedagogue known for his do*entary photography. He concentrates on do*enting the rural life and people of Czech villages. He is considered one of the most important exponents of Czech do*entary photography.

1 Biography
2 Selected exhibitions
3 Books and exhibition catalogues
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

Biography

Štreit began taking photographs in 1964, during his studies at the Pedagogical Faculty of Palacký University in Olomouc. Following his graduation he worked as a teacher in Rýmařov; later he became director of the school in Sovinec and Jiříkov. In addition to his profession, Štreit actively participated in public life. As a local chronicler he do*ented the everyday events and life of Czech villages under the communist regime. The photography theorist Antonín Dufek identified him as "a continuer of the tradition of old village teachers, propagators of culture and progress".

Since the 1980s, Jindřich Štreit has regularly organized exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances at the Sovinec Castle. The photographer is sometimes nicknamed 'Jindra from Sovinec'.

In the late 1970s, Štreit's approach to photography began to change. He studied at the Ins*ut výtvarné fotografie (Ins*ute of Art Photography) in Brno, led by K. O. Hrubý and Antonín Hinšt. He graduated from the Ins*ute with a cycle of theatrical photography. At the same time he continued expanding his cycle of everyday life of the villages in the foothills of the Jeseníky Mountains. Additionally, he helped organize cultural life in the region; he participated in organizing exhibitions and concerts.

In 1981, during the general elections in the former Czechoslovakia, Štreit do*ented the official course of the elections. In some of his photographs made during the meetings of the local authorities, the portrait of the President of Czechoslovakia appeared on photographs in very "unlikely and absurd places". A year later, in June 1982, Štreit agreed to display his works at the exhibition Setkání (The Meeting) organized in Prague by the graphic artist Alena Kučerová. After several hours, the exhibition was banned by the state police and Štreit was arrested and accused of defamation of the President and the country. He was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment with a suspended sentence of two years. As a consequence, he lost his job and was forced to earn a living at a state farm in Rýžoviště. He was banned from taking photographs, but he never respected the ban and returned to photography immediately after his release from the prison. The photography theorist Anna Fárová managed to include his works in the exhibition 9 + 9, visited by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who do*ented Štreit's installation and published his photos in the French newspaper Le Monde.

In 1989, after the Velvet Revolution and subsequent democratization of Czech society, Štreit was rehabilitated and allowed to take photographs without limitations. In 2009, he was named Professor of Applied Arts by the President of the Czech Republic Václav Klaus. As of 2010, Štreit works as a teacher at the Ins*ut tvůrčí fotografie (Ins*ute of Creative Photography of Silesian University in Opava).

Selected exhibitions

1990

Sovinec. Side Gallery, Newcastle

2002

Lidé z kraje písku. City Gallery, Pécs; Muvészetek Háza, Eger (both Hungary)
Katholische Akademie, Munich (together with Adriena Šimotová)
Vesnice je svět. Prospekto Fotografijos Galerija, Vilnius; Fujifilm Fotografijos Galerija, Kaunas (both Lithuania)
Jindřich Štreit: Dans le cadre de Bohemia Magica, Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse
Mezi námi. Cesty života. Brána naděje, Prague
Fotografie. Gallery Langův dům, Frýdek-Místek (Czech Republic)
Za oponou. National Museum, Prague
Fotografie z kraje písku. New Town Hall, Prague
Jindřich Štreit-Tvorivé dielne na Slovensku. Czech Centre, Bratislava

2003

Cesta ke svobodě. Theatre Ludus, Bratislava
Cesta ke svobodě. Czabai IFIHAZ, Békéscsaba (Hungary)
Cesta ke svobodě. Theatre Baj Pomorski, Toruń (Poland)
Lidé olomouckého okresu. Kulturplatz, Münsingen (Switzerland)
Daleko od domova. Czech Centre, Novorosijsk, Moscow
Beziehungen. Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
Das Tschechische Dorf. Tschechisches Zentrum / Czechpoint, Berlin
Interpretace. Gallery Caesar, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Úcta k životu. Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, Přerov (Czech Republic)
Svět dětí. Gallery Auritius, Tábor (Czech Republic)
Cesty života. Gallery Perseus, Olomouc
Viděno srdcem. Olomouc
Lidé mého kraje. Museum in Bruntál, Bruntál

2004

Lidé z kraje písku. Hungarian Cultural Centre, Helsinki
Vztahy. Czech Centre, Dresden; Palais für aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt (Germany); Neumünster (Germany)
Lidé ledkových dolů. Maison de l'Alsace, Paris
The Village is a Global World. Side Gallery, Newcastle
Mezi námi. Gallery Měsíc ve dne, České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Život na zámku. Gallery Patro, Olomouc (Czech Republic)
Tak blízko, tak daleko. M.E.C.C.A., Terezín (Czech Republic)
Tak blízko, tak daleko. Theatre, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic)
Tváře za zdí. Gallery of Critics, Prague
Lidé mého kraje. Gallery Fiducia, Ostrava; Prague

2005

Jindřich Štreit. Blue Sky Gallery, Portland
Ein tschechisches Universum, Gallery Fotoforum, Innsbruck
Čzech Universum. Photogallery, Bolzano (Italy)
Jindřich Štreit. Photo-Forum, Bozano
Jindřich Štreit. Gallery of the Parliament of Lithuania, Vilnius
So near and yet so far: Photographs from Chechnya and Ingushia. Gallery Vapriikki, Tampere (Finland)
Tak blízko, tak daleko. Museum Kampa, Prague
Vztahy. Gallery 4, Cheb (Czech Republic)
Cesta k člověku. Minorites Monastery, Opava (Czech Republic)
Fotografie J. Štreita ze sbírky Moravské galerie. Moravian Gallery, Brno

2006

Vztahy. Gallery ZPAP Pryzmat, Kraków
Jindřich Štreit. Galeria BWA, Bielsko-Biała (Poland)
Sovinec. Centrum Kultury Zamek, Galeria Fotografii PF, Poznań
Jindřich Štreit. European Parliament, Brussels
Jindřich Štreit. Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Jindřich Štreit. House of Arts, Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie, které mám rád. Museum of Ostrava, Ostrava
Jindřich Štreit. Orlická galerie, Rychnov nad Kněžnou (Czech Republic)
Vzpomínky. Malá galerie, Kladno (Czech Republic)
Jindřich Štreit. Castle, Sovinec (Czech Republic)
Jindřich Štreit. Gallery Zdeněk Sklenář, Prague

2008

Das Dorf ist eine Welt. Fotografien. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wörlen, P*au (Germany)

Books and exhibition catalogues

Birgus, Vladimír. Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie. Bruntál, 1980.
14 regards sur le district de Saint-Quentin. 1992. ISBN:80-85491-27-3.
Vesnice Je Svet / The Village Is a Global World / Das Dorf Ist Eine Globale Welt / Un village, c'est tout en monde. Arcadia, 1993. ISBN:80-901423-5-4.
Der Hof: Vom Leben am Lande. ISBN:3-85252-067-3. With Manfred Chobot.
Štreit, Jindřich. *onsko: Lidé z Akagi / 日本　赤城村からの人々. Opava, Rychnov n.Kn., 1996. ISBN:80-85879-48-4 (in Czech, German, English, French, and *anese) Photographs of Akagi in Gunma Prefecture, *an. With a preface by Vlasta Čiháková-Noshiro (in four languages but not German) and a biography and information about Štreit (in four languages but not *anese).
Štreit, Jindřich; Dufek Antonín. Zabavené fotografie / The Confiscated Photographs. Brno: Moravian Gallery, 1999. ISBN:80-238-4236-6 (in Czech and English)
Štreit, Jindřich; Cousin, Christophe; Wagner, Jean-Jacques. A coeur perdu / Touches of Heart / Doteky srdce. Belfort: Musée d'art et d'histoire de Belfort, 1999. ISBN:80-238-4544-6 (in Czech, English, and French)
Štreit, Jindřich. Cesta ke svobodě / The Road Towards Freedom / Weg zur Freiheit. Bruntál: Okresní úřad, 2000. ISBN:80-238-4954-9 (in Czech, English, and German)
Štreit, Jindřich. Brána naděje / The Gate of Hope / La porte de l'espoir / Tor der Hoffnung. Olomouc: Arcibiskupství olomoucké, 2000. (in Czech, English, French, and German)
Štreit, Jindřich; Wawrzacz, Jiří (text): Lidé Třineckých železáren / People of Třinec Steelworks / Die Menschen die Třinecer Hütte / Les gens de l'usine métallurgique de Třinec. Třinec: Třinecké železárny; Moravia Steel, 2000. (in Czech, English, French, and German)
People of the Olomouc region / Lidé Olomouckého okresu. New York: Soho Photo; Czech Center New York, 2000. ISBN:80-900054-6-2. (in Czech and English)
Štreit, Jindřich. Fotó*k / Fotografie z kraje písku / Photographs from the Flatlands. Budapest: Budapest Galéria, 2000. ISBN:963-00-4339-4. (in Hungarian, Czech, and English)
Jindřich Štreit ze Sovince, aneb, Kam (ne)vstoupila noha fotografova. Moravský Beroun: Moravská expedice, 2001. ISBN:80-86511-01-4. (in Czech)
Mezi námi / Among Us. V Sovinci: Společnost přátel umění, 2001. ISBN:8023874535. (in Czech)
Štreit, Jindřich; Sedláček, Martin (text). Daleko od domova. Brno: Nakladatelství Jaroslav Sedláček, 2002. ISBN:80-238-9393-9 (in Czech)
Cesty života / Ways of life. Olomouc: Krajský úřad Olomouckého kraje, 2003. ISBN:80-239-1356-5. (in Czech and English)
Spolu / Together. Olomouc: Občanské sdružení SPOLU, 2003. ISBN:80-239-0602-X. (in Czech and English)
Jindřich Štreit - Tváře za zdí / Jindřich Štreit - Faces behind the wall / Yinderehe *ecaide - Weicheng zhi nei. Sedliště ve Slezsku: Lašské muzeum a galerie; Prague: Čínský kulturní ins*ut, 2003. ISBN:80-239-1330-1. (in Czech, English, and Chinese)
Štreit, Jindřich; Kopřiva, J.; Perunová, K. (text). Tak blízko, tak daleko. Čečna a Ingušsko 2003 / So Close and Yet So Far. Chechnya and Ingushetia 2003 / So nah und doch so fern. Tschetschenien und Ingutschien 2003. Prague: Sdružení Česká katolická charita, 2004. ISBN:80-239-1950-4 (in Czech, English, and German)
Jindřich Štreit: Fotografie 1965-2005 / Jindřich Štreit: Photographs 1965-2005. Prague: Kant, 2006. ISBN:80-86970-05-1. (in Czech and English)
Paměť času. Rýmařov: Městské muzeum v Rýmařově, 2006. ISBN:80-239-8204-4. (in Czech)
Iden*a reality. V Bruntále: Muzeum v Bruntále, 2007. ISBN:80-87038-04-5. (in Czech and English)
Ocelový svět / World of steel. Hranice: Dost, 2008. ISBN:80-902942-5-1. (in Czech and English)
Vítkovice. Prague: Kant, 2008. ISBN:80-86970-82-5. (in Czech)
*onsko 1995 - Návraty. Hranice: Dost, 2008. ISBN:80-902942-5-1. (in Czech and English)
Víra a odpuštění / Faith and forgiveness. Ostrava: Petarda, 2008. ISBN:80-87247-00-0. (in Czech and English)
Europeans. Praha: Kant, 2009. ISBN:80-86970-89-2. (in English) With Vladimír Birgus and Jindřich Marco.

Notes

References

Moucha, Josef; Musilová, Helena; Hodek, Eva Marlene (2006). Fotogenie iden*y: pamět̕ české fotografie / The photogeny of iden*y: The memory of Czech photography. Prague: Kant; Prague House of Photography. pp.:218–227. ISBN:80-86970-12-4. (in Czech and English)

External links

"Village is a Global World", Amber Online. Štreit's photographs taken in and around Crook, County Durham, c1993
"Jindrich Streit Black and White photography exhibition Prague 2007", ABC Prague.