Boris Németh is a Slovak photographer based in Bratislava. For more than twenty years, he has photographed people for the media, companies and his own long-term projects. His work spans portrait, documentary and photojournalistic photography. At the heart of his work is an interest in people – their character, identity and the environment in which they live. Since 2006, he has been a photographer and photojournalist for the magazine .týždeň, covering political, social and cultural events. Alongside his editorial work, he develops long-term personal projects and photographic series focusing on contemporary Slovak society.
He is the author of photographic books and projects including Ako sa máš, Slovensko?, Slovakia I’m Lovin’ It, Bratislava – Košice, tam a späť, Painted with Light, Flash of Light and The Dictionary Document. His work moves between documentary, photojournalism and portraiture, and has long explored themes of identity, memory, society and human relationships. He has received numerous national and international awards, including awards from Slovak Press Photo and Czech Press Photo. In 2011, he was named Photographer of the Year by the Central European House of Photography. His photographs have been exhibited in Slovakia and abroad, including at the Slovak Institute in Prague, Gallery Medium in Bratislava, the La Gacilly–Baden Photo Festival in Austria, the United Nations headquarters in New York, and photography festivals in Istanbul and Warsaw. In 2026, one of his photographs was selected for the 123rd edition of the Salon d’Automne in Paris. His work is held in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the Central European House of Photography, the VÚB Foundation and other public and private collections.
He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he completed his doctoral studies in 2011. Since 2013, he has also been involved in teaching and the education of documentary photography. In his teaching, he focuses not only on photographic technique, but above all on observation, communication and the ability to work with people in front of the camera. In his studio at Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, he leads photography courses and workshops focused on portrait photography, working with light, communication and natural portraiture. He also teaches courses in social documentary and photojournalism, working directly in the field and focusing on photographing real people, conducting interviews and finding stories with respect.
People are at the heart of his photography. Whether working on a portrait, a photo story or a long-term documentary project, he aims to create images that are not only visually compelling, but in which the person remains present as an individual.