TITLE: People in the Fields

People who stretch agrotextiles over the furrows of fields to protect plants from frost, pests and drought act like sailors on a stormy sea. The textiles swell in gusts of wind and during manipulation, people get lost in them and emerge again. Everything resembles a well-coordinated orchestra, disturbed only by the whims of the wind.

AUTHOR: Jaroslava Novotná (Czech Republic)

Jarka Novotná studied at the School of Creative Photography in Prague. She is an artist, an illustrator and the author of several books, which often combine photography, paintings and haiku poems. She has been living in Prague since 2018.
The landscapes of the Jizera Mountains were her first creative inspiration. Her current work focuses on pieces with artistically stylized natural details – sometimes computer-manipulated – and on incorporating delicate surrealistic poetics into her photography when shooting agricultural landscapes, crops and objects found out in the open.