Night Photography nominee

Next photo from this series. Story of a long-term "Stronger" photocycle, in which I capture ordinary people who have gone through something extraordinarily difficult on their way of life, which has ultimately made them stronger. The main person of this story is Katka, who has been the victim of domestic violence. Katka was 18 years old when her mother died tragically and she had to take care of her younger brother. Her husband, with whom she had very early son, was supposed to be her support. But her husband gradually discovered the rapist and Katka was forced to flee with her son. But the husband found her, and one January afternoon he fired two gun wounds into her. The third one shot his head.

Katka survived after several operations. Gradually, she began to live a new life with her new partner, later her second husband. She was getting rid of fear and gaining self-confidence. But after many years, the new marriage collapsed and divorced. A couple of months later, her husband committed suicide, shot himself. Paradoxically, he made it a weapon he once bought to protect her.

Czech photographer Miloš Nejezchleb has only been focusing on conceptual photographic work for 3 years; however, he has already won several awards. He is the winner of Czech Press Photo contest, double absolute winner of the Nikon Calendar contest, a Silver Medallist of the Fine Art Photography Award in London and the Double Trierenberg Super Circuit Gold Medallist. The most characteristic features of his photographs are noticeably colourful elements with a clear focus on the art of photography.

Miloš often chooses current social topics, which he processes as stories using photographic series. These stories are narrated by people. He works on such series on his own and ensures the entire Art direction. He himself designs styling, looks for locations and carries out post-production.

Besides conceptual art, where he points out currently discussed topics, Miloš has 3 long-term thematic photographic cycles which document stories of real people. The most famous of them is photographic cycle "Stronger", in which Milos takes photos of people who have gone through hard times in their lives, and thanks to this experience they have become stronger personalities.