2024-05-16 19:41:59
Slovak photographer Jakub Hodáná’s image of a cobweb-strewn window within the Australian area of Kuku-yalanji gained this 12 months’s Czech Nature Picture competitors. An professional jury chosen it from greater than 2,500 images.
“The profitable photograph impressed the jury in a number of methods. The writer imaginatively opens a window into the world for a lot of not fairly in style creatures. The image forces the viewer to consider the plot line – is it the story of 1 or six spiders? The photographer demonstrated excessive technical abilities, a transparent imaginative and prescient and artistic method. It affords us a rare view of an ‘atypical’ motif,” explains its chairman Petr Bambousek.
Jakub Hodáň, who’s the writer of the profitable image, described its creation as follows: “On the finish of a protracted day, drained and with a transparent imaginative and prescient of a chilly drink, on the way in which residence we got here throughout a fence stuffed with cobwebs – this attention-grabbing and darkish motif. Wanting on the variety of lifeless bugs , to whom this fence turned deadly, the concept of a sort of gate or window to the underworld instantly flashed in my thoughts.”
Jakub Hodáň is a local of Záhoří, Slovakia. Throughout his travels he visited nearly all of the continents of the world. His first lengthy journey led to Australia and left a deep impression on him and the need to return to those locations time and again. He has a weak spot for animals that most people doesn’t recognize and infrequently somewhat rejects. He seeks out nature that’s untouched by man, no matter which hemisphere he’s in.
Six major classes had been listed within the competitors: Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Underwater Life, Invertebrates, Crops and Fungi and Panorama. It was additionally doable to submit footage to the particular classes Sequence, Animals in human care, Nature in Prague and to the class Prize for one of the best {photograph} of Czech nature. Underneath the patronage of the Prague Zoo, the class Animals of their surroundings was marketed. You’ll find the leads to the photograph gallery subsequent to this text.
The profitable pictures at the moment are exhibited within the Czech Picture gallery in Prague’s Nové Butovice. An accompanying program can be ready: On Wednesday, June 5, there shall be a guided tour of the exhibition with the competitors supervisor and photographer Michal Kraus, and on Tuesday, June 18, there shall be an writer’s presentation by Václav Šilha. The whole program shall be printed on the web site www.czechphoto.org.