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For the public was opened United Press Photo 2009, contains 600 photographs, at Knight Hall Old Town Hall till 31 January 2010.
PHOTOGRAPH OF THE YEAR CZECH PRESS PHOTO 2009 – Crystal Eye
The Photograph of the Year is the main prize of the competition. It is awarded to a photograph, which the International Jury considers to be the best from the journalistic (topicality, information value, expressiveness, promptness) point of view, which has a high aesthetic quality and symbolizes an important issue of the year. The winner receives 120 000 Kc, the Crystal Eye glass sculpture and all expenses paid trip to Prague to receive the prize.
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
1st prize – Golden Eye
JOE KLAMAR, AFP: President Barrack Obama in Prague, 5 April 2009 (series)
2nd prize
ROMAN VONDROUS, CTK: Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Miloslav Vlk visited the church of Panna Maria Vitezna in Prague, 26 September 2009 (series)
3rd prize
TOMAS KRIST, Lidove noviny: The Obamas in Prague, Hradcanske namesti, 5 April 2009
Honorary Mention
MICHAL CIZEK, AFP: A year in the life of the Czech President Vaclav Klaus, 2009 (series)
International Jury Statement:
“This photograph captured us by its surprising and unusual composition of an event of national and international importance. It symbolizes an encounter of the hopes of the past – President Masaryk – and the precipitous changes of the present – the election of the first black American President. It expresses a new hope for our world.”
