Martin Wágner (born 14 June 1980 in
Prague,
Czechoslovakia) is a
Czech photographer known for his series of photographs taken in former
Soviet Union. In his works made between 1994 and 2012, Wágner focuses mainly on depicting urban and village life in
Siberia.
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
Antonín Kratochvíl and
Greenpeace
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spokesman
Václav Vašků.
Prayer for Chernobyl homepage
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Notes
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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Living people
Photographers from Prague
1980 births