Dana Kyndrova
Born in 1955, she earned a degree in Russian and French from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, and taught at foreign language departments of the Czech Polytechnic and the Academy of Performing Arts for 12 years. A freelance photographer since 1992, living in Prague, she took up photography in 1973, her focus always on humanist phototographs in black and white. She has organised around 55 solo exhibitions of her work in Czechoslovakia and abroad and has published three books of her photographs: ‘An Inveterate Faith in a Better Future’ (1998), capturing the political atmosphere in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s-90s, with the Communist manifestations, the Velvet Revolution of November 1989, and the departure of Soviet troops; ‘Per musicam aequo’ (1998), capturing music lessons for the visually disadvantaged. ‘A Woman Between Inhaling end Exhaling’ (2002) includes Dana Kyndrová’s photographs from the 1970s and 1980s, but mainly from the 1990s when she explored the theme in the Czech Republic as well as in Switzerland, France, England, The Ukraine, etc. Her work continues on other long-term projects such as ‘Places of Pilgrimage’, ‘Subcarpathian Ruthenia’ and ‘Russians’. www.kyndrova.cz
The Russians
from: Photography
An exploration by the Czech photographer taken before and after the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the Soviet Union, 1980s and early 1990s. Dana Kyndrova was one of the photographers involved in the Crook international Photography Workshop, 1993.
Unclear Family: Crook Workshop, 1993
from: Photography
A group show presentation of the work coming out of the Crook International Photography Workshop in 1993, documenting the experience of family in and around the South West Durham town.