Boris Németh

Boris Németh (*1979) is a Slovak documentary and reportage photographer who has been observing the transformations of Slovak society for over twenty years. He studied photography at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, where he subsequently taught reportage photography for thirteen years, and has been a photographer for the magazine .týždeň since 2006. He is the author of long-term cycles such as How Are You, Slovakia?, Slovakia – I'm Lovin' It, The Dictionary Document, and Carriers. He has won awards in the Slovak Press Photo, Czech Press Photo, and Journalism Award competitions, and received the Photographer of the Year title in 2011. His images are represented in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, the Central European House of Photography, and the VÚB Foundation. He has exhibited, among other places, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, at the La Gacilly–Baden Photo festival, and in Prague, Istanbul, and Warsaw. This October, his photograph Levice will be exhibited at the 123rd Salon d'Automne at the Place de la Concorde in Paris.