About The Artist

My name is Petr Borovec. I was born in 1966 in the City of Ostrava, in former Czechoslovakia. ABOUT ME The first time I looked into the viewer of my father’s camera I was just a child. I spent long hours in the darkroom with him, learning to process black and white films and to make darkroom prints. Later when I was older, I bought my first SLR camera a Soviet Zenit TTL. I returned to photography after my compulsory military service shortly before 1989. Influenced by the work of many famous Czech photographers, especially Josef Sudek,I became more and more interested in creative photography. When I returned to photography for the second time around the year 2000, I tragically lost all of my negatives and data on the disk. And finally I picked up my camera again in 2016. This time aiming for analogue and minimalism. I recently realized that I was looking for ideas in a similar way Josef Koudelka does. I take the camera, I go out and look for where the photo is waiting for me. And if I find it, then I'll try to capture it. Of course, I won’t always manage to do that. Sometimes I know that "it" is somewhere waiting for me, but I can’t capture it in a way that I can be happy with the result. I love those moments. It’s like when the receiver tunes to the correct frequency and establishes the link. MY NEW [ART] WORK Diary of The Everyday, 2017 iPhonegrafia, 2018 - 2019 Feeling of The Moment, 2019 MY PREVIOUS WORK Montenegro Beauty, 2006 EarthShip, 2004 – 2006 Magic Moments, 2004 Portraits, 2003 – 2006 People from The Hills, 2003 – 2004 Moments from Tournai, 2003 Random Meetings, 2001- 2004 AWARDS Euroraport PhotoProject: The First Day in European Union, Selection by a professional jury, Foundation of Visual Education (PL) & Nikon Polska Ltd., 2004 The 32nd International Artavita Online Art Contest, The Finalist with Certificate of Excellence, Artavita, Santa Barbara (USA), 2019 SOLO SHOW Reflection & Near the Sky, building of the former cinema Vesmír in Ostrava (CZ), February 2019 GROUP SHOWS 150 Years of Photography, Prague (CZ), 1989 Euroraport PhotoProject: The First Day in European Union, Warszawa & Łódź (PL), 2004 PRIVATE COLLECTIONS U Hraběnky guesthouse, Petrovice (CZ), 2002 TEMAX tech company, Uherský Brod (CZ), 2002 MSS company, Ostrava (CZ), 2005 MEDIA Melvin Mapa Film Photographers Interview, Singapore, 2018