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  Main information:   Vova Pomortzeff was born on July 23, 1974, in Sverdlovsk, USSR. He graduated from the Urals State Academy of Architecture and Arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
He has lived and worked in Prague, Czech Republic, for last twelve
years.
  E-mail:   info@pomortzeff.com
  Awards:
 
  Shortlist of the Sport category in the international competition Sony World Photography Awards (2011). Winner of the Russian national annual open photo project The Best of Russia (2011). First place in the Sport category of the Russian national competition of the Foundation of Photojournalism Development FRF 2009 Award (2010). Grand prix of the Second Russian festival of travel photography PhotoTravel (2010). Finalist of the Russian national photo award Best Photographer (2010). Finalist of the international competition Wildlife Photographer of the Year (2009). Special Jury Prize and Audience Sympathy Prize of the Russian national competition of wildlife photographers The Golden Turtle (2009). Second prize winner of the annual competition of the The National Wildlife Federation in USA (2008).

Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
  Exhibitions:
 
  Exhibition of the 365 best photographs of Russia of the year The Best of Russia (2011). Exhibition of the best photographs of the year Czech Press Photo (2010). Exhibition 'Prague by Eyes of Russian Photographers' in the Czech Cultural Centre in Moscow (2010). Exhibition of the winners of the Russian national competition of wildlife photographers The Golden Turtle (2009). Exhibition of the best photographs of the year Czech Press Photo (2007).
  Publications:

 
  Guide books Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, Footprint; newspapers The Guardian, Izvestia, Vedomosti,  Novaya Gazeta, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Argumenty i Fakty, Moskovsky Komsomolets; magazines Itogi, Profil, Vokrug Sveta, Yuny Naturalist, Vsemirny Sledopyt, Snob, TimeOut Moscow, Bravo, Cosmopolitan, Reader's Digest, Lidé a Země and others.
  Shot countries:

 
  Austria, Armenia, Belgium, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vatican, United Kingdom.
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