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Prize giving ceremony of the 17th CZECH PRESS PHOTO competition

15th Nov 2011

On Tuesday the 15th of November, the prize giving ceremony of the 17th CZECH PRESS PHOTO competition took place in the presence of the President of the republic and the Mayor of Prague.
The main prize, the Crystal Eye, with the title PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR 2011 was awarded to Stanislav Krupar, Reflex. Alena Dvorakova and Viktor Fischer received another important award, the Grant of Prague.

Further 30 Czech and Slovak photographers received prizes awarded by the international jury in the eight competition categories.

Canon Junior Award, a special prize for young photographers bellow the age of 25, was awarded already for the fourth time to six photographers.

Other awards: UNHCR Award – the prize of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, two Nikon Sport Awards, Academic Award.

The 17th CZECH PRESS PHOTO 2011 exhibition, which is taking place in the Cross and the Knight’s Halls of the Old Town Hall in Prague, opened to public on the 16th of November. This year it has around 500 awarded and other selected photographs from the total of 3 744 images submitted to the competition by 288 photographers. As every year, it again mirrors the life and world of the previous year.

The photographs by last year’s Grant of Prague Czech Press Photo 2010 winner, Roman Vondrous, called Fragments of Metropolis, form a part of the exhibition at the Roman-Gothic vaults of the Old Town Hall. The images are the fruit of the one-year creative grant awarded by the Mayor.

The exhibition at the Prague Town Hall is opened to the public from the 16th November 2011 until 31st January 2012 daily from 10am to 6pm. Entrance is 100 Kc for adults, 60 Kc for students and seniors. Schools 30 Kc per person (minimum 10 students). There is also a 64-page catalogue of the winning pictures.

There will be the VISITORS’ PRIZE again this year. The visitors will decide the prize themselves by voting in a questionnaire at the exhibition.

The readers of iDNES prize and the children’s Alik iDNES prize, for which people could vote for several weeks starting with the announcement of the results of Czech Press Photo 2011, until the day the exhibition opened at the Old Town Hall, went to one photographer - a mountain climber and well-known nature photographer, Ladislav Kamarad. The winning picture that both the children and adults agreed on was the Milky Way in Sumava.

Guests at the 17th Czech Press Photo award ceremony are entering Brozik’s Hall at the Old Town Hall in Prague.

The last adjustment of the mayoral gold chain and the Mayor of Prague Bohuslav Svoboda is ready for action.

Director of Czech Press Photo contest and exhibition, Daniela Mrazkova, is welcoming guests.

Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda is opening the ceremony.

Marketa Stivinova’s flute announces the start of the award ceremony.

Stanislav Krupar from Reflex receives the main prize of Czech Press Photo 2011 – Crystal Eye and the Photograph of the Year title from the Mayor.

The happy Czech Press Photo 2011 winner with the Mayor.

Alena Dvorakova receives the Grant of Prague 2011 from the Mayor for herself and partner Victor Fischer.

Jan Zatorsky from MF DNES receives the second prize in the Spot News category for his series Revolution in Egypt.

David Neff from MF DNES receives the third prize in the Spot News category for his series Norwegian Tears.

Jan Caga receives the first prize in the General News category for his series Toxic Mud in Hungary.

Martin Krpac from TV Prima receives the second prize in the General News category for photographs of Japan after the tsunami.

Karel Tuma from Choice Images won an Honorable Mention for his picture from the Prague Pride.

Vojtech Herout won the first prize in the People in the News category for his picture of Vaclav Havel at the premiere of Havel’s film Leaving.

Michal Cizek from AFP carries his daughter on his shoulders to receive the second prize in People in the News category for his photograph Tennis Love.

...and Cizek’s daughter is taking her father’s prize from the Mayor.

Michal Kamaryt from CTK receives the first prize in the Sports category for his picture of the famous goal by the Finnish forward Mikael Granlund against the Russian goalkeeper Konstantin Barulin.

Last year’s main prize winner, Joe Klamar from AFP, won the third prize in the Sports category for his series Thai Boxing.

Alena Dvorakova and Viktor Fischer from Afisphoto won the first prize in the Everyday Life category for the their series Prison Spiritual Service.

Martin Wagner and Jan Vermouzek receive the second prize for their series about a town in the former Soviet gulags.

Milan Jaros from Respect won the third prize in the Everyday Life category for his series from China called Millions Spent Shopping.

Michaela Spurna receives a second prize in the Portrait category for a series staring her daughter called Plays.

Prague Mayor and international jury chairman, Andrej Reiser, with Hynek Glos from Euro magazine who won the second prize in the Nature and Environment category.

Petr David Josek from AP won the third prize in the Nature and Environment category for his pictures of the transport of horses from Prague ZOO to open countryside in Mongolia.

Dan Materna from MF Dnes received an Honorable Mention for his series Wolves, which also won him the Academic Award.

Stanislav Zbynek from CTK won the first prize in the Art and Entertainment category.

Stanislav Krupar from Reflex magazine receives the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) prize from the director of the Czech office, Marta Miklusakova, for his picture of a Somali mother with her child.

Joe Klamar (AFP), receives the Nikon Award from the Nikon marketing director, Eva Cizkova.

Michal Kamaryt from CTK receives another Nikon award from Eva Cizkova.

Director general of Canon, Ladislav Palecek, is awarding Canon Junior prizes given to photographers bellow the age of 25; first to David Buzek, also known as Kerny.

Another prize for young photographers is awarded by director general of Canon to Michal Cerveny...

.... another photographer Eliska Fischerova.

Junior prize also for Filip Fojtik

...and Pavek Jurik

...also Katerina Mestankova, who won the Canon Junior Award for her series of self-portraits.

This year for the first time, readers of i-DNES.cz voted for their prize. The result was announced at the awards ceremony. Ladislav Kamarad won the Readers of i-DNES.cz prize with his picture Milky Way in Sumava in the Nature and Environment category. He received the award from the editor-in-chief of i-DNES.cz Michal Hanak.

This year, also for the first time, young readers of Alik iDnes voted for their award. And the children surprisingly agreed with the adults. Ladislav Kamarad received the Alik iDnes award from the director of i-DNES.cz Jaroslav Kabele.

The winner of this year’s main prize, Stanislav Krupar, spoke at the end of the awards ceremony. He thanked Reflex for the support he gets, especially from the picture editor Jan Sibik, and with his typical absentmindedness admitted the importance of Czech Press Photo competition for photographers....

Representatives of partner companies CEZ and Nikon listened attentively on both sides of the Mayor.

Stanislav Krupar, the winner of Czech Press Photo 2011 is posing with his prize, the Crystal Eye, which was made by Ruckl Crystal

After the ceremony, Prague Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda and director of CPP Daniela Mrazkova, drink a toast in Jirik’s Hall

...member of international jury, Reuters photographer Petr Josek, is sharing impressions with award-winning photographer David Neff from MF DNES.

Prague Mayor evidently enjoys meeting director general of Trigema Marcel Soural and his wife. Trigema annually awards the Academic prize at Czech Press Photo for photographs of nature. Veronika Souralova is a passionate macro photographer and so is the Mayor.