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Photo exhibition Travel and Emotions in Piešťany, Slovakia

The 5th year FIJET SLOVAKIA is organizing international competition and exhibition Travel and Emotions in Piešťany's Balnea Esplanade. This year's theme stimulated competing tourism journalists to highlight moments between people in the visited location, moments in nature, moments in culture in their photographs. The international jury, led by PhDr. Marián Pauer ESFIAP, selected 55 photographs of authors from the Czech Republic, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Canada, Austria,Hungary  and Slovakia for the presentation of the exhibition. The organizers of the exhibition were glad that most of the photographs brought a message from people's lives. A pleasant surprise were photos  from foreign journalists who were in Slovakia.

The Mayor of Piešťany, Peter Jančovič, welcomed the attendees and highly appreciated the idea of publicizing the life of local people in the form of a photograph of travelling journalists. Executive Director of the main partner of the exhibition KOCR Region of Experiences Agáta Mikulová appreciated FIJEET SLOVAKIA's efforts to "bring" foreign journalists to the Trnava region and the exhibition to Piešťany. FIJET SLOVAKIA President Ľudmila Novacká emphasized that every year takes place in Piešťany, the spa town as the "home port" of Travel and Emotions.

The artistic - expression message of photos   was emphasized by the chairman of the jury and the curator of the exhibition, Marián Pauer.

Awarded  photographers are, as follows:

Rudolf Bihary, Slovakia

Karel Meuleman, Belgium

Radoslav  Sviretsov, Bulgaria

Katarína Lišková, Slovakia