/ 2025 / Fine Art / Digitally Enhanced

• Prize
  Honorable Mention
• Photographer
  Marek Boguszak, Czech Republic
• Studio
  Boguszak
• Website
  https://www.boguszak.com
• Instagram
  @boguszak_mm

In these flowing contours, the desert becomes a dream of light and pulse. As if winds sculpt not sand, but emotion, each form whispers something unnamed. Orbs of color hover like moons from forgotten mythologies, casting their quiet spell. Every frame pulses with a hidden current, like breath held just before dawn.

It is not landscape, but language — coded in curves, textures, and phantom suns. This is a place where wonder doesn’t shout, it murmurs beneath the surface.

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. Marek creates a unique photography body of work from their journeys in Death Valley and Abu Dhabi deserts. The sophisticated image processing highlights colorful shapes and pure lines with breathtaking harmony.
Marek has presented solo exhibitions at international venues in Zurich (CH), Bern (CH), Barcelona (ESP), Campione (IT), London (UK), Prague (CZ).

Awards 21sth Pollux Awards (2023), Winner in the Professional – Cityscape category

Winner of the Fotonostrum Magazine Awards, January 2024

20th Pollux Awards (2023), Winner in the Professional – Abstract category

19th Pollux Awards (2023), Winner in the Professional – Abstract category

1st Place IPA 2023, Winner in the Professional – Fine Art, Abstract category

Winner Prague International Art Exhibition 2023 – Photography category

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

Shortlist RPS IPE 165, 2023

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

Jury TOP 5 Selection International Photography Awards 2021

Shortlist Art Gemini Prize 2022, 2021

Silver Awards:
- Neutral Density Photography Awards 2022
- 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, Particular Merit Mention):
ND Awards (2022, 2021), IPA (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020); Siena Creative Awards (2022, 2021); AllAboutPhoto (2022), FAPA (2022, 2021,2020); Px3 (2022, 2021, 2020); APA (2022, 2021, 2020); MIFA (2021); BIFA (2022, 2021); TIFA (2022, 2021, 2020); VIPA (2021); One Eyeland (2020), Photo is Light (2020)