Martin Wágner (born 14 June 1980 in

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) is a

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photographer known for his series of photographs taken in former

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. In his works made between 1994 and 2012, Wágner focuses mainly on depicting urban and village life in

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. In ten years, he took the Czech Press Photo award for best Czech and Slovak photojournalists four times. In 2009, he received 2nd prize in the international FRAME competition. In 2006, he participated in the documentarist project ''Prayer for Chernobyl'' with Czech-American photographer

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and

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spokesman Václav Vašků.Prayer for Chernobyl homepage
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External links

Czech television report on Wágner's exhibition in Prague

Public Czech Radio report on Wágner's photographs from Ukraine and Russia

Text about Martin Wágner by Czech historian Aleš Kuneš
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