Borut Furlan was born in 1959 in Postojna, Slovenia, and is now living in Ljubljana. He has a Master of Science (M.Sc.)  degree in chemistry and is working in a pharmaceutical industry.

Borut started diving in 1977 and is a member of the oldest diving club in Slovenia, DRM Ljubljana, which was founded in 1952. (More about diving)

He entered the world of underwater photography in 1979, building his own underwater housing for his first camera and later he built three more. Since 1998 he uses state of the art Seacam underwater camera housings. Since 1980 he uses exclusively Nikon photographic equipment, from 2006 digital Nikon D2x. (More about equipmenti)

He is participating in underwater photography competitions since the beginning of his career. In ten years, from 1994 to 2003, when he quit competing in national contests, he won the title of the national champion in general underwater photography every year. The most important of his international awards is certainly the 3rd place on the World Championship in Underwater Photography in Egypt in 2000. (More about competitions and awards)

Borut Furlan had many photo exhibitions, lectures and multivision slide shows in Slovenia and in neighbouring countries. In 2007 he organised and performed the first comprehensive (2 weeks duration) course in underwater photography in Slovenia. (More about presentations)

His work was published in many domestic and foreign publications, among other in magazines and brochures. He published some calendars and cooperated in several book editions. In 2006 he presented the first Slovenian underwater photo monograph, A Journey into the Silent Worlds, published by Didakta. (More about publications)