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Ján Štrba

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Ján Štrba
Ján Štrba in 2023
Born (1952-06-03) 3 June 1952 (age 73)
NationalitySlovak
Alma materFaculty of Mechanical Engineering, SVŠT
Occupation(s)Photographer, technician
Years active1974–present
Known forKoncert mladosti

Ján Štrba (born 3 June 1952) is a Slovak photographer.

Biography

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Štrba was born in Slovenský Grob, Czechoslovakia. He graduated at the Secondary Industrial School of Electrical Engineering in Bratislava.

In 1974, he started to take photographs. That same year, the Fermata band concert in Trnava was the first concert where Štrba took photographs.[citation needed] In 1981, he graduated with the master's degree in production machinery and equipment study field at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, SVŠT in Bratislava.[1] Since 1983, he has been living in Pezinok and worked most of his life as technician at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava.[2]

He published two monographs, Taký vzdialený deň (2002) and Návrat (ne)strateného (2012), and photopublication Pezinok 1208 – 2008. In the meantime, several books have been published with his photographs of musicians and concerts, e.g. feelings from Koncert mladosti festival at the Amphitheater Pezinok which were part of various commemorative exhibitions and books.[3][4]

Together with Peter Bittner, he is an author of Pezinok – Musictown book from 2021[5][6] and together with Bittner and Pavol Boriš, he became co-author of Pezinok – bigbeatown second edition in 2024.

He is married to his wife Ľudmila and their sons are Matej[2] and Jakub.

References

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  1. ^ "Vyhľadávanie absolventov". absolventi.stuba.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  2. ^ a b Solga, Oliver (June 2012). "Ján Štrba – jubilujúci fotograf". Pezinčan. Mesto Pezinok. ISSN 1338-1857. Archived from the original on 2022-12-06.
  3. ^ Vanya, Boris (2019-08-15). "Keď máničky obsadili Pezinok, pohromu odvrátili The Beatles". Sme. Bratislava: Petit Press. ISSN 1335-4418. Retrieved 2021-11-14.
  4. ^ "Pezinok: Marián Varga na Koncerte mladosti po 30 rokoch". epochtimes.cz (in Slovak). 2007-08-12. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
  5. ^ "FEELmedia projects" (in Slovak). Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  6. ^ "Pezinok Musictown". Nový Populár. Vol. 2022, no. 2. Bratislava: Jozef Chrobák. p. 9. ISSN 1337-8015.
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