Martin Wágner

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.[1]

Martin Wágner (2019)

In ten years he took the Czech Press Photo award for best Czech and Slovak photojournalists four times.[2] In 2009 he received 2nd prize in the international FRAME competition.[3]

In 2006 he participated in the documentarist project Prayer for Chernobyl with Czech-American photographer Antonín Kratochvíl and Greenpeace spokesman Václav Vašků.[4]

Notes
  1. Wágner on Czech Photo Gallery website including list of exhibitions and awards Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Wágner's photographs in Czech Press Photo competition 2011 Archived 2012-08-15 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Frame 2009
  4. Prayer for Chernobyl homepage
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