He started to study photography at the age of twenty. He was a press photographer with the Hungarian News Agency for 18 years, then became contributing editor of the magazines Képes 7 and Európa, and correspondent of Wostok Press, a Paris-based photo agency. He is interested in the visual interpretation of the real world, the documentarian representation of people and their environments. He is a founding member of the Studio of Young Photographers. He is multiple winner of Word Press Photo prizes. In 1992, the series that documented the decline of metallurgy in Ózd earned him the scholarship of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund (New York). He taught documentary photography at the Hungarian University of Applied Art. He has had more than sixty solo, and more than a hundred group exhibitions at various parts of the world. An Artist of Merit, he has won the Balázs Béla Prize, the Pulitzer Memorial Prize and the Capa Grand Prize Hungary. In 2016 he was named Artist of Merit. His works can be found in a number of important public (Hungarian Museum of Photography, Hungarian National Museum, National Széchenyi Library, New York Public Library) and private collections.
2013
24 × 56 cm
2013
24 × 56 cm