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Artist Name

Marek Boguszak

Born: 1952

Hometown: Prague

Based in: Prague

Over the last decades, Marek—a photographer for more than 40 years—has shifted his photographic technique from manual analog B&W to digital color photography. With his wife, Magda, they have established a unique visual vocabulary by designing abstract artifacts in the last few years. Today, the duo creates and acts together as Boguszak, exhibiting and selling award-winning photography worldwide.

The pair created a unique photography body of work from their journeys in Death Valley and Abu Dhabi deserts. The Boguszak's sophisticated image processing images highlights colorful shapes and pure lines with breathtaking harmony.

Boguszak have presented solo exhibitions at international venues in Zurich (CH), Bern (CH), Campione (IT), London (UK), and Prague (CZ) and many group exhibitions across Europe and the USA. They are the recipient of many awards including 20th and 19th Pollux Awards (2023), RPS IPE shortlist (2023), TIFA (2022, 2021, 2020), APA (2022, 2021, 2020), IPA (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020), Px3 (2022, 2021, 2020), ND Awards (2022, 2021), FAPA (2022, 2021, 2020), NYC4PA (2023, 2021), BIFA (2022, 2021), Art Gemini Prize shortlist (2022, 2021).

 



Marek Boguszak In The Studio

I took digital landscape photographs all around the world and a lucky chance brought me to the sand dunes. Countless variations of their harmonious curves and shapes reminded me of the cleanliness of Newton’s laws of motion. Geometrical patterns of sand dunes in vast areas, undisturbed by human activity or even by living nature, create an unusual environment for a play of light.

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More About Marek Boguszak

Question IconWhat inspires you?

Ever changing play of lights and shadows evoking my dreams and emotions.

Question IconDescribe your creative process.

Unlike in my previous works, when I take a photograph today, I do not know what will emerge at the end of my work on it. The process of analyzing digital matrix from camera is quite close to a search for photographic equivalents in which recorded lines and structures emerge in a new composition. This new work evokes fresh associations and meanings, which in turn stimulate emotions freed from the original recorded object.

Question IconWhat are 3 words that best describe your work?

Harmony, dreams, fantasy.

Question IconWho are some artists that have influenced your work?

Josef Sudek, Alfred Stieglitz, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Question IconWhat is the most important tool when creating your work?

My curiosity, love in experimenting and my soul.

Question IconWhat is the best piece of advice you have been given?

Everything is possible, just think, try and do it.

Question IconWhere do you go for inspiration?

My wife, desert and music.


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Credentials

Education

czechoslovak academy of Sciences, PhD studies

Czechia, 1980

Charles University in Prague

Czechia, 1975

Awards

International Photography Awards, Winner Abstract

2023

Fine Art Photography Awards

2023

20th Pollux Awards, Winner Abstract

2023

19th Pollux Awards, Winner Abstract

2023

Royal Photographic Society, IPE 165, Shortlist

2023

Creative Photo Awards

2022

Fine Art Photography Awards

2022

Art Gemini Prize

2021

Paris Photography Prize, ND Awards, One Eyeland 2021

2021

Tokyo International Foto Awards

2021

ND Awards

2021

International Photography Awards, Annual Photography Awards

2020

Exhibitions

Instantanee in Movimento

Italy, 2023

Dunescapes Tunes

Czechia, 2022

Beyond Experimentation

Switzerland, 2022

Water Dunes

Italy, 2022

Re-Imagine Prague

Switzerland, 2022

Narrative of Abstraction

Switzerland, 2021

Talking to the Sand Dunes

United Kingdom, 2021

Talking to the Sand Dunes

United States of America, 2021

Structures

Czechia, 2020

It's a Matter of Perspective

China, 2020