I love dunes – these perfect harmonious shapes and lines. Such perfect proportions, not touched by a human hand, are difficult to find anywhere else.
Once abstracted from their surroundings, sand dunes reveal their beauty and clean forms, which can be presented freely from different angles, distances, and perspectives, and with boosted colors.
Since the new perspective and color schemes prevent quick recognition and weaken ready associations with the familiar landscape, the brain is provoked to read the image anew and establish a deeper and extremely personal understanding of the final work. As the recognizable 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. I have learned to look for a glimpse of harmony wherever available and however fleeting. They keep me moving, believing and going further when things get tough, since the changes we hope for, whether in culture, politics, or private life, seldom come as fast and easily as one’d wish.
About Marek Boguszak
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 abstract work from the 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), Campione (IT), Barcelona (ES), London (UK), and Prague (CZ). In the last five years, his photos have been awarded at many prestigious international open calls and bought by clients in European countries and the US.
