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Marek Boguszak – Fine Art Photographer Creating Landscape Abstraction

Bio

 

Over the last decades, Marek Boguszak—a Prague-based photographer for more than 40 years—has shifted his photographic technique from manual analog B&W to digital color photography. His work explores the transformation of real landscapes into perceptual abstraction. Rooted in photography yet moving beyond representation, he creates large-scale works that dissolve the physicality of desert dunes into luminous color fields, flowing structures, and layered compositions. His work focuses on large-scale photographic interpretations of natural structures, especially desert landscapes, using imaginative visual language.

Through subtle manipulations of light, orientation, and chromatic relationships, his images become a contemplative space shaped by harmony, balance, and quiet tension between natural formation and human perception. 

 

Boguszak’s work is awarded and presented internationally and is conceived primarily for large-scale installation, where its immersive qualities and material presence can fully unfold.

Artist statement

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Rooted in photography yet moving beyond representation, my work transforms real landscapes into abstract images. I create large-scale photographic works with layered compositions, luminous color fields, and flowing structures, encouraging slow looking.

 

To dissolve familiar landscapes into chromatic and perceptual abstractions, I process colors’ inversions, vertical architecture, and numerous image transformations and adjustments. Through an alluring alchemy of light, color, and texture, I search for subtle marvels and mysteries rooted in the timeless harmony and quiet grace of desert dunes. Light becomes a shaping element, color sets the mood, and texture adds a sense of material presence. The desert becomes an inner landscape — a space of reflection where form, color, and balance come together.

 

My work opens visual spaces that invite viewers to slow down and reconnect with a sense of enchantment, inner balance, and light positivity. Each image is conceived as a gentle pause — offering moments of composure, recentering, and renewal.

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 Exhibition 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

Fotonostrum Magazine, Issue 35, January 2024

AATONAU, Profile article, January 2024

 

Dodho Magazine, December 2023

© 2020 by Marek Boguszak

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