Boris Németh, 1979
„Photography is my way of understanding people — and, through them, the world we live in.“
Boris Németh (1979) is a Slovak portrait, documentary, and reportage photographer based in Bratislava. His work explores the relationship between people, identity, memory, and contemporary society through portrait and documentary photography.
Since 2006, he has worked as a photographer and photojournalist for the Slovak weekly magazine .týždeň, where he has documented politics, culture, and everyday life in Slovakia for nearly two decades. Alongside his editorial work, he develops long-term authorial projects and works as a portrait photographer for companies, institutions, and individuals.
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 an external lecturer in reportage photography at the Academy. Since 2016, he has run his own studio at Nová Cvernovka in Bratislava, where he creates portrait commissions, develops authorial projects, and teaches photography workshops focused on portraiture, communication, and the psychology of working with people in front of the camera.
He is the author of several long-term photographic projects and books, including How Are You, Slovakia?, Slovakia I’m Lovin‘ It, Bratislava – Košice, Back and Forth, Painted with Light, Flash of Light, and The Dictionary Document.
His work has received numerous national and international photography awards. In 2011, he was named Photographer of the Year by the Central European House of Photography. His photographs have been exhibited in Slovakia and internationally, including at the Slovak Institute in Prague, Medium Gallery in Bratislava, the La Gacilly–Baden Photo Festival (Austria), the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and photography festivals in Istanbul and Warsaw.
His photographs are included in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the Central European House of Photography, the VÚB Foundation, and other public and private collections.