1st place
gold star award
Martin Stranka
czech republic 
title
Beautiful Accidents
During the last years he has won over 80 major international photography awards from different competitions, including title Special Photographer of the Year from International Photography Awards™ held in New York at Carnegie Hall, Sony World Photography Awards awarded in London, APA Photographer of the Year, Nikon International Photo Contest and Prix de la Photographie Paris. Martin's works were exhibited and auctioned by the leading auction house Christie's in London. His solo and group exhibitions have been seen from South and North America, through Europe, all the way to Asia. His photographs have been exhibited in places such as New York, Basel, Tokyo, London, Miami, Paris, Prague, Hong Kong, Kiev and many more. Martin's work was presented in galleries such as Christie's London, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Saatchi Gallery or SNAP! Orlando.
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entry description
The most important moments in life are often just the ones that never happened. The Beautiful Accidents series elaborates on this narrative and maps the narrow line between aesthetic beauty and the fateful event. These deliberately visually unfinished stories seek the boundary between visual appeal and a dramatic scene that can change human life in an instant. The attempt is to find out to what extent can be aestheticized the accident that the viewer witnesses and thus becomes a part of it.about the photographer
Martin Stranka, a native of the Czech Republic who lives in Prague, is a self-taught professional photographer, born on April 13 1984. Martin was a bored student plodding through courses in business school when the unexpected lost of a close friend led him to pursue photography as a form of therapy. That hobby turned into a passion and, eventually, a profession. His distinctive vision of photography is etched as a unique space located in a balance and serenity, while his sophisticated and rewarding images exist in that narrow window of a few seconds between dreaming and awakening. Martin creates images that appear to be stills from a film — one that walks the line between fantasy and reality. Stranka explores our fascination with the incomplete narrative: ‘in these deliberately visually unfinished stories I seek the boundary between visual appeal and a dramatic scene,’ he has written.During the last years he has won over 80 major international photography awards from different competitions, including title Special Photographer of the Year from International Photography Awards™ held in New York at Carnegie Hall, Sony World Photography Awards awarded in London, APA Photographer of the Year, Nikon International Photo Contest and Prix de la Photographie Paris. Martin's works were exhibited and auctioned by the leading auction house Christie's in London. His solo and group exhibitions have been seen from South and North America, through Europe, all the way to Asia. His photographs have been exhibited in places such as New York, Basel, Tokyo, London, Miami, Paris, Prague, Hong Kong, Kiev and many more. Martin's work was presented in galleries such as Christie's London, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Saatchi Gallery or SNAP! Orlando.
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