Boris Németh (1979)

is a portrait, reportage, and documentary photographer based in Bratislava.

Since 2006, he has been working as a photographer and photojournalist for the weekly magazine .týždeň. His work focuses primarily on documentary and portrait photography, with a long-term interest in society, identity, and social change.

He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he completed his postgraduate studies in 2011. Since 2013, he has been teaching reportage photography there as an external lecturer. Since 2016, he has run his own studio at Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, focusing on portrait photography, authorial projects, and courses dedicated to communication and psychology in portraiture.

He is the author of several photographic books and long-term projects, including How Are You, Slovakia?, Slovakia I’m Lovin’ It, Bratislava – Košice, back and forth (2020), and Paradoxes of Photographic Images (2021).

In 2011, he received the Photographer of the Year award from the Central European House of Photography. He has received multiple national and international photography awards. His work has been presented at exhibitions and photography festivals in Slovakia and abroad, including the Slovak Institute in Prague, Medium Gallery in Bratislava, the La Gacilly–Baden Photo Festival (Austria), the United Nations in New York, and photography festivals in Istanbul and Warsaw.

His works are held in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the Central European House of Photography, and the VÚB Foundation, as well as other public galleries and institutions.