Fotograf Magazine

In 1996, Dalibor Chatrný realized an exceptional series titled Interpretations of Photographs by Jindřich Štreit. It comprises a selection from Štreit’s systematic photographic documentation of the foothills of the Jeseníky Mountains between the 1960s and 1980s, uncovering the authentic and highly specific existential conditions of the local people. Their lives are lived with a firm sense of belonging to their delineated time-space, which reflects a broad range of social and psychological states in all phases of life. One of the dominant authoritative roles is played by the local priest, who accompanies the locals from their birth to their final fulfillment in life.