BOGUSZAK PHOTOGRAPHY
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
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
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