Tomas Bata University in Zlín

Jan Jindra was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on 7 October 1962. From 1982 to 1987, he attended the Film and Television School of Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU), training in art photography  under Ján Šmok and Pavel Štecha. At that time, he focused mainly on documentary photography. In 1987, Jindra won a prize Young European Photographers competition in Frankfurt am Main. In 1990, he participated in the third Eddie Adams Workshop, in New York. In the same year he carried several assignments for Sygma Photo News, Paris. In 1992 he was a stringer photographer for Prostor, a Prague daily, and between 1993 and 2002 he made more than hundred covers for the magazine Softwarové noviny (Software news). From 1992 onward, he gradually established himself in the world of advertising photography. From 1998 to 2013, he was full member of the Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designers e. V. (Association of Freelance Photographers) in Germany. In 2001, he won First Prize in the Science and Technology Category of the Czech Press Photo competition, and in 2003 First Prize in Canon competition in Poland. Since 2002, he has taught at the Faculty of Multimedia Communication, Tomas Bata University, Zlin, lecturing in the Department of Advertising Photography. In 2012, he was made a Docent at Academy of Performing Arts, Prague. He made four photographic books. His photographs were published in: Le Monde 2, Perfil, El Pais, Clarin, Prager Zeitung, Literaturen, Brennpunkt, Paris Match, Espagne, Angeltere, Afrique du Sud, Photonews, Softwarové noviny.

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Creative activities

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Solo exhibitions

• 2006  Wege des Franz Kafka, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal
• 2006  Wege des Franz Kafka, Gerhart-Hauptmann-Haus, Düsseldorf
• 2006  Wege des Franz Kafka, Landesbibliothek, Dresden
• 2007  Wege des Franz Kafka, Kleisthaus und Tschechisches Zentrum, Berlin
• 2007  Wege des Franz Kafka, Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar
• 2007  Casa de la Cultura, Los viajes de Kafka, Buenos Aires
• 2007  Wege des Franz Kafka, Haus des Gastes, Graal-Müritz
• 2007  Cesty Franze Kafky, Krajská vědecká knihovna, Liberec
• 2007  Wege des Franz Kafka, Stadtbibliothek, Chemnitz
• 2008  Journeys of Franz Kafka, Passaporta, Brüssel
• 2008  Wege des Franz Kafka, Haus der Heimat, Stuttgart
• 2008  Journeys of Franz Kafka, Goethe-Institut, Rotterdam
• 2009  Praha Franze Kafky, České centrum, Bratislava
• 2009  Los viajes de Kafka, Goethe-Institut, Carracas
• 2009  I visggi di Franz Kafka, JRC Caffeteria, Ispra
• 2010  Wege des Franz Kafka, Rathaus von Konstanz, Konstanz
• 2010  Silvestry v hotelu Jalta 1982–1984, Fotograf Gallery, Praha
• 2011  Silvestry v hotelu Jalta 1982–1984, Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava
• 2011  Cesty Franze Kafky, Ambit loretánské kaple, Rumburk
• 2011  Journeys of Franz Kafka, Bohemian National Hall, New York
• 2011  Unter soviel Lidern, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal
• 2012  Wege des Franz Kafka, Moses Mendelssohn Akademie, Halberstadt
• 2012  Wege des Franz Kafka, Sudetendeutsches Haus, München
• 2013  Bylo nebylo, Photogether Gallery, Zlín
• 2013  Vnitřní krajiny, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Praha
• 2014  Innere Landschaften, Haus der Heimat, Stuttgart
• 2014  Bylo nebylo, Galerie Fiducia, Ostrava
• 2016  Heavy Metal Milovice, městský úřad Milovice, Milovice
• 2017  Chalupaři, Filmový festival Uničov
• 2017  Cesty Franze Kafky, dům č. 7, Siřem
• 2018  No one rides free, Galerie Polagraph, Praha

Photobooks

• Na cestách s Franzem Kafkou, (text Judita Matyášová, fotografie Jan Jindra), Academia, Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-200-1708-6
• Jan Jindra: Reklamní a produktová fotografie. Computer Press, Brno 2011, ISBN 978-80-251-3112-1
• Jan Jindra: Osmdesátky. BiggBoss, Praha 2016, ISBN 978-80-906019-6-3
• Jan Jindra: Heavy Metal Milovice. BiggBoss, Praha 2016, ISBN 978-80-906019-7-0