/ 2025 / Portraiture / Personality

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Antonín Kaplan, Czech Republic
• Website
  https://kaplanphotography.art/
• Instagram
  @antoninkaplan

In a world that demands composure, endurance, and performance, sensitivity slowly becomes a weakness. And so the softer parts of the self — emotion, vulnerability, spontaneity — begin to retreat and harden.
First as protection, later as the only way to survive.

I am an artistic photographer born in the 1990s, whose journey began with portrait painting and gradually transitioned to photography during my university studies. Photography has allowed me to explore not only aesthetics but also deeper questions about human behavior and decision-making. My work focuses on portrait, conceptual, fine art, and abstract photography, aiming to provoke reflection on moral issues, the reasons behind bad decisions, and the consequences of human actions.