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Coming from Vsetín and growing up in the Moravian Sudetenland, where his parents lived after his father had publicly praised Masaryk, Štreit started to take photography at the age of fifteen. Following his studies at the Pedagogical Faculty in Olomouc he returned to the Sudetenland. During the day he taught in a local school being its headmaster at the same time and in the afternoons and during the weekends he documented the condition of the society with his camera. Initially he was fond of rural festivities, Christian holidays, sacral motives and liturgy. Later on he sought inspiration in a bizarre connection between the efforts to build the socialist state, which were in contrast to the real condition of the society. Because of that he was taken into a three-month custody in the Ruzyně
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