Sovinec

For over 20 years, primary school teacher Jindrich Streit has been photographing the people of his home village Sovinec, a tiny hamlet in the north of Czechoslovakia. The area was inhabited for centuries by Sudeten Germans and was subject to the Munich agreement in 1938. Then, after the war, all Germans were expelled from the country, leaving behind a string of empty towns and villages. Eventually, a few Czech families from other parts of the country came to settle in Sovinec and the neighbouring village of Krisov.