Michal Novotny - photographer - fotograf
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Michal in Ladakh, India in August 2011
Michal Novotný (born 1973) is based in Prague, Czech Republic and his career began at the age of eighteen when he hitchhiked to the war zone in the former Yugoslavia. Since this time he has covered major international events and feature stories in more than sixty countries.
He has received many national and international awards in several competitions including World Press Photo, Best of Photojournalism and Czech Press Photo. He regularly works on assignment for major international newspapers and magazines. His work has been published in The New York Times, GEO, Time, Stern, DAYS JAPAN, The Atlantic, The Sunday Times Magazine, Focus, L’Expres, L’Equipe, The Wall Street Journal, and El Mundo magazines among others. 
                                                                                                                     

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AWARDS:
WORLD PRESS PHOTO     (www.worldpressphoto.nl)
2006 - Daily Life - 3rd prize stories - The Blind in Liberia  (click to see)
BEST OF PHOTOJOURNALISM    (www.nppa.org)
2007 - 1st prize Enterprise Picture Story (large markets) - Street kids in Odessa 
2004 - Honorable Metion Sports Picture Story - Kusti - traditional Indian wrestling 
FUJIFILM EURO PRESS PHOTO AWARDS
1999 - Spot News (CZE) - Earthquake in Turkey
1997 - Spot News (CZE) - Students protests in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
CZECH PRESS PHOTO    (www.czechpressphoto.cz)
2009 - Honorable Mention Daily Life Stories - School for the blind in Haridwar, India
2008 - 1st prize General News stories - ISAF in Afghanistan
2007 - 1st prize Sport stories - Wrestling in Senegal and Gambia
          - Honorable Mention Daily Life stories - Christianity in DR Congo
2006 - 2nd prize Daily Life stories - Street kids in Odessa, Ukraine
2005 - Honorable Mention Daily Life stories - The Blind in Liberia
           - UNHCR Award - The Blind in Liberia
2004 - 3rd prize General News - Handicaped Nepalese boy living chained to his house
2003 - 2nd prize Spot News stories - First days after the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq
          - 1st prize Sports stories - Kusti - traditional Indian wrestling
2001 - 3rd prize General News stories - Maha Kumbh Mela - pilgrimage to Allahabad, India
          - 3rd prize Spot News stories - New York after 9/11
          - 1st prize General News stories - Mother Theresa's houses for dying and handicaped, Calcutta
          - PHOTO OF THE YEAR - funeral of firefighter who died at World Trade Center 9/11
          - Kodak Award - funeral of firefighter who died at World Trade Center 9/11
          - 1st prize Spot News - funeral of firefighter who died at World Trade Center 9/11
2000 - 1st prize Daily Life - Chechnyan refugees in Ingushetia
           - 3rd prize Arts stories - Czech-Russian dance theatre
1999 - 1st prize General News stories - Refugees from Kosovo in Albania and Macedonia
          - 2nd prize Sports stories - Gypsy football club TJ Roma
1998 - 3rd prize General News - Children hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
1997 - 2nd prize General News stories - Students protests in Belgrade, Yugoslavia

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