/ 2025 / Fine Art / People

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

We rarely realize how easily our identity can be shaped from the outside. Influences, gestures, the tone of a voice, a glance. Slowly, quietly — until one day we find ourselves seeing differently, thinking differently, feeling differently.

It is inevitable. Relationships shape us. The question is not whether, but by whom. And whether that shaping is a transformation for the better — or a slow fading of who we once were.

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.