Sport 3rd Place

The fans of the football club Bohemians Prague 1905 are among the most loyal in the Czech Republic. They’ve helped the club financially through collections at times when it was struggling to survive. Their loyalty, zeal and devotion to the club did not waver even when spectators were banned from watching the matches of the top football league, due to the Covid pandemic. Not wanting to miss a home match under any circumstances, they brought ladders and watched the matches over the wall of the football stadium. The stadium of Bohemians Prague 1905, nicknamed Ďolíček, is outdated and will soon undergo a major reconstruction. But it has its own unmistakable genius loci in the Prague district of Vršovice.

Roman Vondrouš graduated from the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic where, currently he works as an external university pedagogue. He works as a photo reporter for the Czech News Agency, where he is responsible for daily photo agency news. The main part of his work is photographing horse-racing; both on the track and behind scenes. In addition to that he has been working on many other more extensive or shorter photographic documentary series.