Flooding in Germany
“I arrived at the site with journalist Filip Harzer right on the morning of Friday 16 July. It was hard to get around the area, with roads destroyed or under water and no mobile phone signal. We saw people in Schuld, Altenburg and Kreuzberg who had only just found out what had happened to their property and whether their neighbours were still alive. In some places, the water had risen up to eleven metres above the normal river level. Many timber houses had disappeared completely, and people were clambering over wood carried there by the flood, remainders of buildings, cars and caravans. I’ve never seen such devastation caused by flooding ever before,” says the author.
Born in Vinohrady, in Prague. He has been taking photographs since the age of eighteen. After leaving school, he studied photography at the Prague School of Photography.
In 2001, he joined Večerník Praha as a press photographer, and from 2004 until 2020 he was employed by MF DNES’s regional Prague newsroom. He currently works as a photographer for the Seznam Zprávy newsroom. He mainly focuses on sports and reportage photography. He has taken photographs of a number of major sports events, such as the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany, and the 2008 European Football Championship in Switzerland and Austria. He won first prize in the Czech Press Photo contest in 2007, and second prize in 2006 in the People in the News category. In 2016, he won the Photograph of the Year award, becoming the absolute winner of the contest.
Photo: Michal Šula / Seznam Zprávy
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