WHO ARE DVORAKOVA – FISCHER?
9th Nov 2011
They are the photographers who were awarded this year’s Grant of Prague Czech Press Photo 2011 by the Mayor of Prague.
Grant of Prague – a one year creative scholarship to photograph changes in the capital – is awarded by the Mayor of Prague, on the recommendation of the International Jury Czech Press Photo, to the participant in the competition, whose submitted work demonstrates a professional approach to the subject. At the end of the year, every grant recipient has an obligation to provide to the Mayor of Prague two sets of their best photographs for archival and exhibition purposes. After seventeen years of awarding the grants, the Prague Town Hall has received a representative set of over five hundred photographs which enables it to follow and evaluate the changes in Prague from various perspectives - social, architectural, new developments or the expansion of the city into the surrounding countryside. The establishment of the Grant tradition as part of the Czech Press Photo competition was a historical accomplishment by the Mayors of Prague for future generations.
Alena Dvorakova /1970/ - Viktor Fischer /1967/
Graduated from the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague (FAMU). They have been working on documentary photographic projects since 1992. They have had a number of exhibitions and took part in a range of photographic projects. They have won nineteen Czech Press Photo prizes and are members of Choiceimages photographic agency.
They’ve received the Grant of Prague 2011 for their project “Prague – City and Water” on the basis of project-in-progress where they follow the phenomena of water and the role it plays in the lives of the people of Prague, including anti flood measures.
www.afisphoto.com; www.choiceimages.org
