
Kde domov můj
- Publisher
- wo-men
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9788090523951
- Specifications
- 93 loose unnumbered sheets in a cardboard box tied with string
Illustrations, mostly in colour
29 x 36 cm
Parallel English text
English translation by Nora Gill, Olga Pek
Best Photography Book in Central and Eastern Europe 2016, 1st place, Contemporary Photography, Month of Photography Bratislava
The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2016, 1st place, Bibliophile and Artist's Books
Jindřich Štreit decided to celebrate his seventieth birthday with an artistic act that moves the classic photobook towards an interactive object. The subject of Kde domov můj (Where Is My Home) is homeless people, whom Štreit photographed intensively over four years. He arranged the results into a series and symbolically closed it in a cardboard box tied with string. The concept of this book-object comes from materials familiar to homeless people: the ones that, in the hardest moments on the street, become their property and the basic building block of their temporary home. For much of his career Štreit has portrayed particular environments and their inhabitants; he does not try to aestheticise strong social themes but documents the world as it is.