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Introducing Roman Vondrous, the recipient of the GRANT OF PRAGUE

ROMAN VONDROUS (1975) was born in Pardubice.  He graduated from Electrotechnical School, trained as a photographer and currently is a fourth year student at the Institute of Creative Photography in Opava. He started taking pictures as a child when he was mainly interested in sport, especially horse riding. He freelances with regional and national daily newspapers, but previously he also worked as electro technician at Czech Rail. Since 2005, he’s been a photo reporter at CTK (Czech Press Agency). He has been winning awards at Czech Press Photo since 2004. In 2010, on the recommendation of the International Jury the Mayor of Prague awarded him the Grant of Prague on the basis of his project-in-progress about the lives of people in confrontation with the architecture of the Prague housing estates. The Grant is a one-year creative scholarship intended for photographic documentation of the changes in the capital. After a year, every Grant recipient has an obligation to present the Prague Municipality with a set of thirty photographs for archival and exhibition purposes. Roman Vondrous is the 16th recipient of the Grant and he will show his work at his solo exhibition as part of the 17th Czech Press Photo 2011.
 

sample of the Grant here.