Marek Boguszak – Fine Art Photographer Creating Landscape Abstraction

Bio

Marek Boguszak is a Prague-based photographer whose work converts desert landscapes into perceptual abstractions. Working with photographs made in environments such as Death Valley and the dunes of Abu Dhabi, he uses light, texture, and spatial relationships as raw material for an extended process of visual reconstruction.

Through transformations of colors, orientation, luminosity, and formal compression, the original terrain gradually loses its descriptive function and evolves into unstable image spaces that move between photography and abstraction. Boguszak deliberately suppresses clarity and detail to sustain tension, ambiguity, and perceptual instability within the image.

The resulting works shift between geological forms, bodily surfaces, folded fabric, and architectural space, resisting fixed interpretation. Produced as large-scale prints, the works are conceived not only as images, but as immersive spatial experiences.

Boguszak’s practice spans more than forty years, evolving from analogue black-and-white photography to large-scale digital color works. His work has been exhibited internationally and received awards including consecutive First Prizes at the International Photography Awards (2023, 2024) and the Gold Award at the Prix de la Photographie Paris (2024). His works are held in private collections in Europe and the USA.

Artist statement

Rooted in photography yet moving beyond representation, my work transforms real landscapes into abstract images. I apply transformations of color, spatial orientation, and form, through which the original terrain gradually dissolves and shifts it toward a more ambiguous and open form.

I approach each image as a process of exploration. I am interested in the point where an image stops representing a place and begins to operate through perception. Light becomes a shaping element, and the image is built step by step through a sequence of decisions rather than following a predetermined fixed plan.

What emerges is not a stable image, but a space of perception. The resulting works resist immediate reading and clarity, remaining perceptually unstable. The viewer is invited to stay within the image and find their own way through it. The work remains open, holding a tension between recognition and abstraction rather than resolving into a single meaning.

AWARDS

1st Prize at the International Photography Awards 2024 in the category Professional - Fine Art, Abstract

Gold Winner Prix de la Photographie Paris 2024, category Fine Art / Abstract - Professional

Shortlist RPS International Photography Exhibitio n 166 in 2024

21th Pollux Awards, Winner in the category Professional - Cityscapes, 2024

Winner of the Fotonostrum Magazine Awards, Issue 35, January 2024

20th Pollux Awards, Winner in the category Professional - Abstract, 2023

1st Prize at the International Photography Awards 2023 in the category Professional - Fine Art, Abstract

3rd Place in the contest Luminosity, New York Center for Photographic Art, 2023

Shortlist RPS International Photography Exhibition 165 in 2023

19th Pollux Awards, Winner in the category Professional - Abstract, 2023

Prague International Art Exhibition, Winner in the Photography category, 2023

First Place in the contest Wandering Curves, New York Center for Photographic Art, 2021

Jury TOP 5 Selection International Photography Awards 2021

Shortlisted in Art Gemnini Prize Contest in 2021 and 2022

Silver Awards

- International Photography Awards 2022, 2nd Place

- Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022

- Budapest International Foto Awards 2021

- Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021

- Moscow International Foto Awards 2021

Bronze Awards

- Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2022

- Tokyo International Foto Awards 2020

Honorable Mention (Nominee, Finalist):

IPA 2024, 2022, 2021, 2020; NYC4PA Wandering Curves 2024, DODHO Magazine Fine Art 2024, DODHO Magazine Monochromatic 2024, NYC4PA Architecture 2024, Siena Creative Awards 2022, 2021; FAPA 2024, 2022, 2021; Px3 2022, 2021, 2020; ND Awards 2022, 2021; APA 2024. 2021, 2020; MIFA 2021; BIFA 2022, 2021; TIFA 2021, 2020; VIPA 2021; One Eyeland 2020, Photo is Light 2020

PRESS

The photographic work of Marek Boguszak has also been featured in books and international photography publications.

Digital Photography Through The Eyes of Analog Photographer

COTE Magazine Zurich, summer 2022