The exhibition at FUTUREUM titled Backstage features photographs by the award-winning documentary photographer from behind the scenes of horse racing. The exhibition will be opened with a vernissage on February 12, 2025, at 17:00 and will run until May 25, 2025.
About the author: Roman Vondrouš – a native of Pardubice, a graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Faculty of Philosophy of Silesian University in Opava, and currently a student in the doctoral program at ITF.
In 2013, he won first prize in the Sports category at the prestigious World Press Photo competition, and in 2016, 2017, and 2021, he was awarded in one of the other significant global journalism photo competitions, Pictures of the Year International. In the Czech Press Photo competition, he holds more than twenty awards, including the Title of Photograph of the Year and a grant from the Mayor of Prague for photographing the transformations of the capital city. In 2013, he was awarded the Rector's Prize of Silesian University in Opava for outstanding achievements in photojournalism. Since 2005, he has been a photojournalist for the Czech News Agency, where he dedicates himself daily to agency photo reporting. He has photographed at both summer and winter Olympic Games: 2008 – Beijing, 2010 – Vancouver, 2014 – Sochi.
