Jindrich Streit is a Czech photographer. ‘Sovinec in Moravia’ are the first of his photographs to be published in the UK. He continues to live and work in the village of Sovinec.
‘Before the Second World War there were sixty families – most of them Sudeten Germans – and fifty-eight houses in Sovinec, a small village in Czechoslovakia north-east of Brno. Now there are only twenty-six people living in the eight remaining habitable houses.’
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