Beautiful Accidents

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Photographer

Martin Stranka
Jury Top 5 Selection

Emanuele Cucuzza Method, technical skills, vision, aesthetic, recognisability, communication power, taste, elegance... these images tell us much about the photographer and the possible future of the advertising and art career... Looking forward to seeing next projects

Jamason Chen
Company/Studios

Martin Stranka photography
Date of Photograph

2022
Technical Info

Phase One IQ4 150MP, Schneider Kreuznach LS 40-80mm, 80mm, f14.0, 1/14s, ISO 125
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Website

http://www.martinstranka.com

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.

Biography

Martin Stranka is a self-taught professional photographer based in Prague. A native of the Czech Republic, Martin was born on April 13, 1984. Martin was a bored student plodding through courses in business school when the unexpected loss 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 the medium occupies a unique space of balance and serenity, with rich, complex imagery that seems to capture the fleeting moments between dreams and awakenings.
Awards

2022 Special Photographer of the Year, International Photography Awards™ 2022, Carnegie Hall, New York, USA 2022 Certificate Of Artistic Achievement, Luxembourg Art Prize 2022, The Pinacothèque 2022 1st place, Gold Star Award, ND Awards 2022, Beautiful Accidents, Professional People Category 2022 Photographer of the Year 2021, Grand Prize Winner Annual Photography Awards 2021, Boyhood series 2022 Gold Award, Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022, PX3, professional Portrait category, Beautiful Accidents 2022 Jury Top 5 Selection, International Photography Awards 2022, Beautiful Accidents, Professional People category 2022 Official Selection, International Photography Awards 2022, Beautiful Accidents, Professional People category 2022 1st place, Annual Photography Awards 2021, Boyhood series, category Fine Art 2022 Aesthetica Art Prize 2022, Boyhood, Jury: curators Kyung An (Guggenheim Museum) & Sarah Allen (Tate Modern) 2022 Fine Art Photography Awards, Fine Art nominee, Professional Category, Boyhood series 2021 Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards 2021, Boyhood series, Category: People 2021 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2021, Honorable Mention, Boyhood series, Fine Art category 2021 1st place and Gold Star award, ND Awards 2021, Boyhood series, Category: People 2021 Honorable Mention, ND Awards 2021, Boyhood series, Category: People 2019 1st place, Sony World Photography Awards, Open Creative category, International, 326,000 entries 2019 1st place, Sony World Photography Awards, National Awards 2019, International, 326,000 entries 2019 Fine Art Photography Awards, Nominee, Fine Art category, International 2018 ND Awards 2018, "Dreamers and Warriors", category: Fine Art 2018 Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards 2018, Categry: Digitally Enhanced