Pictures and Pixels - Photographic Art and Beyond
National Salon 2016

Dániel Kovalovszky

PHOTOGRAPHER

2016

He learned the craft at the Práter Street Vocational School, in the studio of Magdolna Rátonyi, and went on to study press photography at the course of the Association of Hungarian Journalists. He made a large number of documentarian series between 2001–2010, exploring the process of aging, and the impressions in Hungary of the communist era. His conceptual series concentrate on the unity of land, portrait and object. His works have been featured at exhibitions in Hungary and abroad. Awards: Pécsi József Scholarship (2006–2008), Junior Príma Prize (2008), Budapest Photography Scholarship (2008), Pictures of the year, USA (2006, 2008). His works in collections: Hungarian Museum of Photography, Raiffeisen Bank, private collections.

The Initiated (excerpt from the series)

55 × 70 cm | Ed.8 +1 Ap

From Gábor’s account
“I wouldn’t call it a tunnel. It was indeed a dark way, or perhaps dim... there were creatures along the way, love creatures, or maybe only they loved me. I couldn’t identify them. It was as if they were made of cobweb. They were translucent...”

The Initiated (excerpt from the series)

Gaylhoffer Gábor, cause of clinical death: cardiac arrest; Lausanne, Switzerland

1989

Gaylhoffer Gábor, cause of clinical death: cardiac arrest; Lausanne, Switzerland