Stanislav Tereba (2 January 1938 – 17 January 2023) was a Czech photojournalist.

Life

Tereba was born in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

on 2 January 1938.Stanislav Tereba
fdb.cz, access date 21 July 2013 His father,

Václav Tereba Václav Tereba (21 August 1918 – 22 February 1990), was a Czechoslovak international table tennis player. He won twenty World Table Tennis Championship medals including four gold medals as part of the Czechoslovakia men's team event. In ad ...

, was an international table tennis player. Tereba won the

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award in 1958. During that year, on a rainy day, he captured an image of

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, a Czech goalkeeper, who was either due to the weather or to the loss of his team miserable at that time. From 1960 to 1990 Tereba worked for the newspaper Večerní Praha. In 1968 he began participating in the

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. In 1976 he took photos of the

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’s victory in the

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, especially of

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. Since 1990 he worked as photojournalist for publications such as Večerník Praha, Občanský denník, Dobrý večerník and Magazin Sport plus. From 1997 until 2003 he was a freelancing photojournalist. Tereba died on 17 January 2023, at the age of 85.

References

1938 births 2023 deaths Photographers from Prague {{photographer-stub