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Rieksts was born at Iecava Parish in the Zemgalian countryside.
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Janis Rieksts
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Foreign some years he worked as a manual labourer, and 1901 he opened his first studio in Torņakalns with his own capital. Rieksts was a renown photographer, mostly for the documentation of the fights during World War I in Latvia, especially the fierce fights of Machinegun Hill (Latvian: Ložmetējkalns) during the Christmas Battles, but also for the many portrait photographs of Latvian dignitairies (amongst them people like Rainis, Aspazija and Emīls Dārziņš). After the end of World World War II, Rieksts worked for the company Rīgas foto until his retirement in 1964.
Rieksts died in Riga at the age of 89.
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Latvia