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AIMLESS WALK REPRISE (DOCK BY CRESTYL)
It is an old blue-collar neighborhood with a small island on the Moldau River in Prague, where I grew up. The island covers a little over half a square mile. Technically, it is a peninsula. But local people call it …
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Treachery of Images: The White House
The title of this project pays tribute to Rene Magritte and his famous painting Treachery of Images, a banal rendition of a pipe with the inscription Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is Not a Pipe). Magritte’s piece asks the …
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They Never Update the Lists
After the Czech Embassy offered me the opportunity to exhibit my photography as a part of the festival of Mutual Inspirations, which is dedicated to Franz Kafka, I intended to make arrangements to travel to Prague to take pictures for …
And They Make Good Neighbors
What do carps in the Japanese Garden in Buenos Aires, a bench on Lafayette Square in front of the White House in Washington, a pile of rocks in somebody’s garden in Unětice, a little village in the Czech Republic, and …
Video
US EMBASSY PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC April 29, 2013 This video was shot during the opening of the retrospective exhibition of Michael Borek held at the American Center at the US Embassy in Prague, Czech Republic, on April 29, 2013. At …
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Wide Asleep / Half Awake
“The dark images [of Josef Koudelka] stand in a stark contract to the dream-like pictures produced by Czech-American photographer Michael Borek … Although some of Borek’s images are described as playful, such as a balloon flying over Prague, many of …
The Bridges of Montgomery County
The bridges of Montgomery County, Maryland, are not as traditionally photogenic as their more famous cousins in Madison County. While few of these bridges are rustic and poetically simple, most of them are functional and utilitarian (at times, eerily so). …
Words left over
When a business heads south, one of the first things to go is the name of the establishment. Often, the removal of what previously was a dull sign with a generic lettering reveals a completely new sign or the imprint …
Urbania
urbania: state of mind, the state of questioning the built environment
Scranton Lace
“Michael Borek’s Laceworks photographs were shot in a ghost-like atmosphere of a decommissioned factory in Pennsylvania. With laces still in the looms, chairs on the stage of the company’s theater, the images capture dissonance between quiet beauty and troubling reality.” …