BioGRAPHY

András was born in southeast Hungary [1990]. He is a freelance documentary photographer currently based in Budapest. He graduated in Marketing at Budapest Business University. After he studied Photojournalism at the Academy of National Association of Hungarian Journalists.

His curiosity, travels and openness laid the foundation for his world of photography. He seeks to get personally involved in his subjects. He focuses on human identity, social and environmental topics, and strongly believes in interpreting his own human experience through photography. András is a self–made artist whose approach combines journalistic and conceptual practices. He works for various commercial and editorial assignments.

2019 is a milestone in his career, he awarded first prize in the Hungarian Press Photo Competition with his series photographed in Armenia and has been selected for several masterclasses in recent years. As a result, he has become even more immersed in documentary thinking, which underpins the atmosphere of his film-photographed stories.

He has also won prestigious national and international scholarships for his ongoing work on climate change in India, in which he examines the environmental problems of the Brahmaputra River. He is currently working on the continuation of this story, and just started photographing the same narrative about human—nature relationship in his homeland. He is the second time recipient of József Pécsi Photography Grant and talent of FUTURES platform.
He is the official photographer of Studio NUR, a graphic design studio based in Budapest.

PUBLISHED IN

Society, Le Monde, M Mag, Libération, Courrier International, El País, D Lui Repubblica, Coda Story, De Volkskrant and various Hungarian magazines

MILESTONES

2014
Photographer for European Voluntary Service in Padova, Italy
2014–2015
Degree in Photojournalism — Association of Hungarian Journalists (MÚOSZ)
2015—
Freelance photographer – working on editorials, commissions & commercials
2018
Artist scholarship of the Hungarian Cultural Fund
2019
1st prize on the 37th Hungarian Press Photo Contest
NIKON-NOOR Masterclass in Sofia, Bulgaria (mentored by Benedicte Kurzen, Kadir Von Lohuizen, and Nina Berman)
2020
Recipient of the I. CARMENCITA Grant in partnership with Kodak Professionnal Europe
2021
PÉCSI JÓZSEF Photography Grant / I. year — annual scholarship for under 35 photographers
Nominated for Leica Oskar Barnack Award by nominator and curator, Istvan Viragvolgyi
FUTURES talent / selected by Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center
2022
PÉCSI JÓZSEF Photography Grant / II. year
Shortlisted — Belfast Photo Festival
Shortlisted — Athen Photo Festival
NIKON-NOOR Masterclass in Budapest, Hungary (mentored by Tanya Habjouqa, Kadir Von Lohuizen & Pep Bonet)
Visualizing Climate Crisis Intensive workshop by NOOR in Bratislava, Slovakia (mentored by Esther Horvath &
Kadir Von Lohuizen)
2023
Finalist — Károly Hemző Award
Nominated for Leica Oskar Barnack Award by nominator and curator, István Virágvölgyi
Blue Memoir — solo exhibition / Gallery East of Eden / Curator – Gabriella Csizek
Culture Moves Europe Mobility Grant / Carmencita Lab, Valencia
Magnum Workshop — mentored by Thomas Dworzak & Jonas Bendiksen, Hungary
2024
National Geographic Explorer — Level I Grant
Blue Memoir — solo exhibition in my hometown / Szentes
Nominated for Leica Oskar Barnack Award by nominator and curator, István Virágvölgyi