Landscape nominee

For the last 25 years, photographer Vlado Bača has been taking pictures of the landscape, he is interested in the landscape of an unlimited space such as the sea, the ocean and the desert. He has been returning to the same place many times, deeper and deeper, he has dived into the topic to gradually become aware of what is so attracted to him.
I fell in love with this country, which is a country of many faces. Finally, I began to fulfill my long dream of creating photographs according to my ideas, as Ansel Adams once called this phenomenon pre-visualization. I was overwhelmed at first glance. One can understand our existence and that we are like a grain of sand. The sand dunes of White Sands or Death Valley, creating unpredictable shapes and lines of alternating light and shadow. I see my intimate world in many shades of gray, colours have disappeared, which would have only disturbed my perception. Only the clean lines of shapes and compositions within landscape have been replaced.
This is the intimate landscape of photographer Vlado Baca.

Date of birth: 7 June 1948 in Žilina, Slovakia
Photographic education: autodidact

Vlado Bača, QEP
member of FEP, Brussels, Belgium
member of FIAP, Paris, France
member of APFSR, Slovakia

1979 He begins to create as a freelance photographer.
2006 Nominated for the "Henkel Art Awards", Wien (Austria).
Nominated for the "Personality of Slovak Photography" award.
2010 Solo exhibition Berlin, Germany.
2011 Solo exhibition Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín, Slovakia
2013 Solo exhibition "From an intimate diary", Moscow, Russia
Award from Pano Awards (Australia) for panoramic photos.
2014 Finalist in the FEP, Brussels- competition for landscape photos.
2018 Receives Silver Award from FEP, Dublin (Ireland).
Monograph "My Story of Photography".
2019 Finalist of the Slovak Press Photo 2019 competition.
2022 Solo exhibition Shapes and transformations, Rosenfeld Palace, Zilina
Solo exhibition Shapes and transformations, Magna Gallery, Piešťany
Bronze Award, Epson-Pano Award, Australia.


Vlado Bača is undoubtedly one of the best slovak photographers, active on the scene for quite a long time. However, the artist is undoubtedly most represented by his work itself, which speaks for itself and is also unforgettable thanks to the charm of his personality.
Katarína Markovičová: Photographic work of Vlado Bača/ 2015, bachelor's thesis - (Pan-European University).