Ján Štrba (born 3 June 1952) is a Slovak

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Biography

Štrba was born in

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. He graduated at the Secondary Industrial School of Electrical Engineering in

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. In 1974, he started to take

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s. That same year, the

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band concert in

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was the first concert where Štrba took photographs. In 1981, he graduated with the

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in production machinery and equipment study field at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, SVŠT in Bratislava. Since 1983, he has been living in

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and worked most of his life as

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at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University in Bratislava. He published two

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s, ''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. Together with Peter Bittner, he is an author of ''Pezinok – Musictown'' book from 2021 and together with Bittner and

Pavol Boriš Pavol "Paľo" Boriš (born 28 October 1954) is a Slovak vigneron, small-scale wine producer and author. He is also former coordinator of hobby and artistic activities of Czechoslovak Socialist Youth Union, SZM local organization in Pezinok, high s ...

, he became co-author of ''Pezinok – bigbeatown'' second edition in 2024. He is married to his wife Ľudmila and their sons are Matej and Jakub.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Strba, Jan 1952 births Living people People from Pezinok District Slovak photographers