{"id":664851,"date":"2026-10-25T11:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T11:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T11:16:24","slug":"czech-photographer-jindrich-streit-celebrates-80th-birthday-with-paris-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/664851\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech photographer Jind\u0159ich \u0160treit celebrates 80th birthday with Paris exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photographs made in northern France more than three decades ago will meet scenes from Czech village life in a new Paris exhibition celebrating documentary photographer Jind\u0159ich \u0160treit\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n

Humanity, opening Nov. 5 at the Czech Centre Paris, brings together work from both countries to explore everyday relationships, vulnerability and dignity. Many of the photographs will be shown publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n

Running through Jan. 16, 2027, the exhibition forms part of the Photo Saint Germain and Photo Days festivals. Organizers describe it as \u0160treit\u2019s first major retrospective in Paris, despite his long history of exhibiting in France.<\/p>\n

Rediscovering photographs from Saint-Quentin<\/p>\n

The exhibition will include approximately 70 images \u0160treit made during commissioned visits to Saint-Quentin in northern France between 1992 and 1994.<\/p>\n

These will be presented alongside selections from his Czech series The Village Is a Global World and People of the Olomouc Region, photographed during the 1980s and 1990s.<\/p>\n

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The prints have been newly produced from the original negatives, allowing previously unseen material to enter a conversation with his better-known work.<\/p>\n

Czech Centre Paris director Radka Ondr\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1 said \u0160treit could find tenderness even in deeply bleak scenes. She described his black-and-white photographs as showing humanity resisting pressures that seek to suppress it.<\/p>\n

For the organizers, the title Humanity emphasizes that the exhibition concerns more than a record of particular places or periods. Its central subjects are the connections between people and the dignity they retain in difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n

The show is curated by Photo Days founder Emmanuelle de l\u2019Ecotais and photographer \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nka Stein, with contributions from \u0160t\u011bp\u00e1nka Bieleszov\u00e1 of the Olomouc Museum of Art. Prague\u2019s Galerie Teleport is a co-organizer.<\/p>\n

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A direct gaze, without humiliation<\/p>\n

\u0160treit turned 80 on Sept. 5. The Paris exhibition follows a major anniversary presentation at the Olomouc Museum of Art, Out of Town!, which explored rare photographs from the former Sudetenland alongside his curatorial activities in Sovinec, where he lives.<\/p>\n

Bieleszov\u00e1 said his approach avoids both false sentimentality and idealization. His subjects can appear tired, vulnerable, isolated or occasionally absurd, but are never stripped of their dignity.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis gaze is direct, but never cruel,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

De l\u2019Ecotais placed \u0160treit alongside his contemporary Josef Koudelka among photographers who have developed a deeply individual view of human life and a body of work of exceptional strength.<\/p>\n

His photographs are held by institutions including New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art, London\u2019s Victoria and Albert Museum and the National Library of France. Last year, he received the Czech Photo lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

The Czech Centre Paris<\/a> exhibition offers a chance to revisit that career through an international pairing: Czech communities and a French city, photographed by an artist attentive to the everyday experiences that connect them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photographs made in northern France more than three decades ago will meet scenes from Czech village life in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-664851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}