Ján Štrba
Ján Štrba | |
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Ján Štrba in 2023 | |
| Born | 3 June 1952 |
| Alma mater | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, SVŠT |
| Occupations | Photographer, technician |
| Years active | 1974–present |
| Known for | Koncert mladosti |
Ján Štrba (born 3 June 1952) is a Slovak photographer.
Biography
Štrba was born in Slovenský Grob, Czechoslovakia. He graduated at the Secondary Industrial School of Electrical Engineering in Bratislava.
He met Paľo Boriš in the early 1970s, when he was traveling on a train with a large reel-to-reel tape recorder, and they became friends.[1] In 1974, Štrba started to take photographs. That same year, the Fermata band concert in Trnava was the first concert where he took photographs. 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.[2] 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.[3]
He published two monographs, Taký vzdialený deň (2002) and Návrat (ne)strateného času (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.[4][5]
Together with Peter Bittner, he is an author of Pezinok – Musictown book from 2021[6][7] and together with Bittner and Boriš, he became co-author of Pezinok – bigbeatown second edition in 2024.
He is married to his wife Ľudmila and their sons are Matej[3] and Jakub.
References
- ^ Jaslovský, Marián (7 November 2025). "Musictown Pezinok: Otcovia komunít". .týždeň. Vol. 22, no. 46. Bratislava: W Press. p. 62. ISSN 1336-5932.
- ^ "Vyhľadávanie absolventov". absolventi.stuba.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ a b Solga, Oliver (June 2012). "Ján Štrba – jubilujúci fotograf". Pezinčan. Mesto Pezinok. ISSN 1338-1857. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022.
- ^ Vanya, Boris (15 August 2019). "Keď máničky obsadili Pezinok, pohromu odvrátili The Beatles". Sme. Bratislava: Petit Press. ISSN 1335-4418. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "Pezinok: Marián Varga na Koncerte mladosti po 30 rokoch". epochtimes.cz (in Slovak). 12 August 2007. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ^ "FEELmedia projects" (in Slovak). Retrieved 16 December 2022.
- ^ "Pezinok Musictown". Nový Populár. Vol. 2022, no. 2. Bratislava: Jozef Chrobák. p. 9. ISSN 1337-8015.