Jan Caga, an award winning photographer, was born in a small industrial town Hodonin, Czechoslovakia in 1976. After graduating from university in Art Design he began working as a freelance magazine/journal photographer. Later he started to work mainly on long-term fine art projects, exploring the status of contemporary society.
Because life is such a rich and still open book and the world is constantly changing. It's not just wars, social problems and riots as intentionally presented in the media. Naturalness, pleasures, sorrows and subtle nuances that differentiate one man from another. Of course interaction between beings. Man create and transform the world in its image and attempting to do the best he can. For a photographer, the globalization does not make the world smaller, but instead of it, creates a new and wider context.
Jan has received numerous awards in international photo contests such as several prizes in the Czech Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International competition, Grand prize PhotoEspana OjodePez Award of Human Values, New York Photo Awards, Kaunas Photo etc.
2021 – Second Place – Everyday life – Czech press photo 2021
2021 – Third Place – Audience Award – Czech press photo 2021
2018 – First Place – Everyday life – Czech press photo 2018
2016 – First Place nomination – Everyday life – Czech press photo 2016
2015 – Selected winner – Kaunas Folioport 2015
2014 – Selected winner – Kaunas Photo Festival 2014
2014 – Honorable mention – Blue Competition – PX3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2014
2014 – Third Place – Professional Selfportrait – PX3 Prix de la photographie Paris 2014
2014 – Honorable mention – Deeper Perspective – International Photography Awards 2014
2014 – Honorable mention – Self Portrait – International Photography Awards 2014
2014 – Honorable mention – Panoramic – International Photography Awards 2014
2013 – First Place – Oceans series– Photo Annual Awards 2013
2013 – Honorable mention – Motions series – Photo Annual Awards 2013
2013 – Honorable mention – FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Personal Photography Project 2013
2012 – Finalist – Documentary - New York Photo Awards 2012
2012 – Honorable mention – FotoVisura Grant for Outstanding Personal Photography Project 2012
2012 – Second Place – Motions – Photo Annual Awards 2012
2012 – Honorable mention – Oceans – Photo Annual Awards 2012
2011 – Grand Prize – PHotoEspana OjodePez Award of Human Values
2011 – Award of excelence – Sport – 68th Pictures of the Year International
2011 – Finalist – Reinassance, stories that could have not been – Winephoto 2011
2011 – First Place – General News – Czech press photo 2011
2011 – Second Place – Sport – Czech press photo 2011
2011 – First Place – Man and environment - Vilem Heckel Peaks 2011
2011 – Nomination Award – Festivities – Humanity Photo Award 2011
2010 – First Place – Sport – Czech press photo 2010
2010 – Honorable mention – Nature and environment – Czech press photo 2010
2010 – Academia award – Nature and environment – Czech press photo 2010
2009 – Honorable mention – Arts and entertainment – Czech press photo 2009
2009 – Second Place – Man and environment - Vilem Heckel Peaks 2009
2009 – Honorable mention – Man and environment - Vilem Heckel Peaks 2009
Kaunas Photo Festival, M.Zilinskas Art Gallery National M.K.Ciurlionis Art Museum, Lithuania, May 2014
Photo AA, Wall Gallery Teplice Spa, Teplice, CZ, May 2013
The New York Photo Festival, The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY, September - October 2012
PhotoEspana Festival, Fnac Callao, Madrid, Spain, June – July 2012
DWNTWN Art Days, WinePhoto Photography, Etra Fine Art, Miami, FL, September 2012
Czech Press Photo, Staromestska radnice, Prague, CZ, November – January 2012
OjodePez de valores Humanos, Fnac L’Illa, Barcelona, Spain, September – October 2011
68th Pictures of the year, Newseum, Washington, DC, April – October 2011
Czech Press Photo, Staromestska radnice, Prague, CZ, November – January 2010
One day in Life, Manes, Prague, CZ, March – April 2008
Asia beyond the window, Dum panu z Lipe, Brno, CZ, January – March 2008