Artwork description
I have learned much from the artworks of Josef Sudek and I was lucky to have lived for many years just a few steps from the place where he had lived and worked.
I was walking with my analogue camera along the same alleys and old gardens of fourteenth-century Prague. Surrounded by the atmosphere of tranquillity, stillness and intimacy one could focus on a little raindrop as if it were a whole world.
In the near absence of strong stimuli for the senses, it felt like shooting ones deep-laid feelings, and I waited impatiently in my dark room to see whether a piece of that early morning misty melancholy would be there...
Shooting digital colour photography of deserts and sand dunes has brought me to a different world and a different state of mind. The calmness of deserts is magnanimous and dignified, the clear morning sunlight is skimming the elegant crests of dunes creating a rich palette of shadows, the soft sand surface and rounded shapes of dunes are reflecting and absorbing different wavelengths of the early light with gentleness and grace.
During the post-processing work, the combinations of inter-weaved shapes and shadows and streams of light offer possibilities to express any idea, any mood, and any level of energy in a special harmonious way, the harmony being originated in the creative forces of nature. These offerings ultimately transcend the reality of the desert.
As the recognisable world dissolves in abstraction, the image comes to work on one’s mind like a fragrance or a piece of music, eluding rational understanding and revealing itself fully only as a feeling.
Biography
Photographer Marek Boguszak was born and still lives in Prague. Photography has been his great passion since his teens. He received his first camera at the age of twelve when he started to experiment with photography. He practiced all phases of the analog photography - from shooting through darkroom development procedures up to his own mating and framing. He was greatly influenced by the aesthetics of photographers such as Josef Sudek, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz.
After graduating in mathematics Marek Boguszak worked as a sociologist and in 1990 he became an entrepreneur in the area of market research. Alongside, photography was his vocation; his passion and his work evolved from landscape to abstract photography. His major subject is sand dunes. He is creating dreamscapes which are entirely freed from the original subject and which present new meanings and emotions.
The artist has received many awards and honorable mentions with TIFA, APA, IPA, Px3, ND Awards, FAPA. He had solo and group exhibitions in London, Zurich, Madrid, Prague, New York, Monaco and Milan.