Biography
Born October 1, 1947.
Graduated from the Czech Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Electrical Engineering) and later from FAMU – The Film and TV School of the Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague (Cinematography Department).
The last assistant of Josef Sudek during the final decade of Sudek’s life.
Worked for Czech Television’s Telexport as a cameraman and as a freelancer for Art Centrum and Merkur in the same profession.
From 1993 has worked as a freelance cameraman.
Aware of his profound inspiration by Sudek’s work and not wishing to be his epigon, Strimpl deliberately avoided photography for many years.
Under the influence of Anna Fárová he took up photography only in recent years.