Jana Stross (Rašková), born Velecká - photographer and children's nurse ...
... she was born in 1973 in Ostrava into a family of teachers, into a family with a rich artistic life, especially art, music and dance.
Despite all the efforts of those closest to her, she decided not to continue the family tradition of cantors and graduated from the Secondary School of Nursing as a nurse in Nový Jičín.
She fell into photography only in 2006, when she received a small Panasonic compact. As it has a positive relationship with technical things,she began to examine it in detail and discovered that the photo was not just a printed rectangle measuring 13x18 cm, but that it was an amazing medium with infinite many creative possibilities...
2022 - 2024 she was a member "Club of Moravian Photographers, registered association" (hereinafter CMP, r.a.) link
2015 - she started a Facebook group " Foto - Líšeň" link and a year later a registered association of the same name Foto - Líšeň, r.a. of which she is the chairperson
2009 - co-founded a photography group "28mm" link
2009 - 2011 she completed photography workshops Antonín Kratochvíl (Beneath the Surface and Edit), Jan Pohribný (Light in the landscape) and Jiří Turek
(Portrait, fashion, nude)
Awards:
- 1st place with CMP, r.a. part of the 21st edition of the Moravian-Silesian map circuit link
2022:
- 1st place for the series of pictures "Colleagues" link and 2nd place for the photo "Angel" link in Tokyo International Photo Awards 2022 (TIFA 2022)
- the ensemble "Collegues" won 1st place in Budapest International Photo Awards 2022 (BIFA 2022) in the medicine category link and 2nd place in the science category link
- interview in the podcast "Schůzky Tomáše Berana" link
- the ensemble "Collegues" was awarded the title of Official Selection in the competition International Photography Awards 2022 in Los Angeles (IPA 2022) in the smartphone photography category link
- The photo magazine Edge of Humanity Magazine published a selection of her images from the cycle "From Life" on 8/1/2022 link
- she won 3rd place in an international photography competition Moscow International Foto Awards 2022 (MIFA 2022) with photo "Angel" link
- in the same competition MIFA 2022 she won an Honorable Mention in the science and medicine category for the photo "Concentration" link
2021:
- she is a finalist in an London International Creative Competition (LICC 2021) in the photo/video category with the file "Colleagues - views" link
- the photograph "Concentration" received Honorable Mention in an International Photography Awards 2021 (IPA 2021) in Los Angeles in the people/portrait category link and she also became a finalist in the OnePlus Photography Awards 2021 in the Your Face category link
- she is a finalist of Digital FOTO magazine in the Mysterious Reflection competition with the photo "Black and White Interview"