• Rehab (2011)

    The KIMM therapy home of was founded for curing and treating alcohol-, drug- and gambling addicts at Ráckeresztúr. The insiders has to spend 9 months isolated in this Christian community while they are getting out of their bad and destroying habit. They has a strict daily routine: working around the house, rehabilitation programmes, teamworking, praying, recreation…

  • College (2010)

    Portraits of the students’ room in the “Stoczek” college, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. How do they live together as individuals and keep their privacy, intimacy, conformity in this temporary community at the same time? (Digital)

  • Random Budapest

    Images taken at random places and dates in the city where I was born and where I’m living. Action gratuite photography – no specific plan, no serious reason, no explanation. From the ’90s until today. Panorama, 6×9 & 3:2. Automatic & manual. Analogue & digital. Mostly buildings. Some people. And me.

  • Marathon

    2013 October 13. Budapest Marathon. Millions run everyday as a recreational activity or train for completing the magic 42.195 kms (26.2 miles). One can find many marathon races every weekend. Year by year in October thousands are trying to challenge the distance.  On the road a runner faces with happy moments and setbacks too.  Mental stress, pain, strain,…

  • Eastern

    Mongolia (2004). A trip where the western mood meets the eastern lifestyle. (Shot on film.) Article on the topic (tearsheets) by Balazs Simonyi: FotoVideo Magazin 2005 / February

  • RetroMetro (2004-2006)

    Except for the Millennium Underground, the interior design of the stations of the metro lines (M2, M3) bring into our minds the Socialist stylistic touch of the 1970s and ’80s. These spaces and buildings both symbolically and nostalgically recall life phases of many generations, and also their interactions with Budapest. Then again, in our time…

  • Railway mates (2004-2006)

    The plan of the „summer city of young pioneers” started being outlined by the end of the 1940s. Along with the children’s camp of Csillebérc, the Children’s Railway of the Széchenyi mountain was built as well, where young mates were active from the beginning. The pioneer railway was the establishment of the sunnier side of…

  • Feather pluckers (2006)

    Goosefeather is plucked each summer by occasionally recruited brigades near to Orosháza and Szentes (South-East Hungary). The feather will be stuffed – dependig on quality – into pillows, beddings and jackets by the processing factories. A diligent worker plucks with 60-80 geese (neck and abdomen) from 7AM until 6PM and receives a receipt for each…

  • Bridgekeepers (2004-2005)

    If we google the Hungarian word “hídmester” (bridgekeepers), we get 67 results. Doing the same with “Erzsébet híd” (Elisabeth bridge), the number of hits is 115 000. They are the representatives of an ancient yet invisible profession: Péter Bene (Erzsébet bridge) Imre Fazekas (Margit bridge) János Fazekas (Chain bridge) Balázs Rehák (Lágymányosi bridge) Béla Kubik…

  • Persian women (2008)

    In the Islamic Republic of Iran, dominance of manhood is still flourishing in spite of modernization. The patriarchal and militant Persian country is trying to open for the world and change in many ways, but the negative discrimination is still alive against woman in most cases. The contemporary Iranian woman tries to suit into the…

  • Portraits of Kars (2007)

    The city of Kars, Turkey, is a melting pot. It lies near the closed border of Turkey and Armenia. Many Iranian, Russian and Georgian families have settled here. This area is the one in Turkey that is most densely populated by Kurds, moreover the Kars region is the much-liked hideout of the PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s…

  • Icelandic postcards (2007)

    On Iceland (39,770 square miles), which has a territory only 1,1 times bigger than Hungary, the number of inhabitants is not more than 300 000 (in Hungary it’s around 10 million) out of which 180 000 lives in and around the tiny capital, Reykjavík. The rest live scattered around in the country with fascinatingly various…

  • Vanity fair (2010)

    The Hungarian elite – culture, knowledge, power and money – meets year by year at the Budapest Opera Ball, the decadence universe of precious jewels and luxury tuxedos. This is a big “must-be-there” social event for the distinguished members of the upper-middle class and the jetset, for celebrities, stars and artists, for politicians and businessmen….

  • Thick red line (2010)

    The little village of Kolontar (Hungary) was evacuated because of an industrial accident at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant. A burst reservoir spilled hazardous sludge on Monday 04 October 2010. The mud was released as a 1,2 m (3,7 ft) wave, flooding several nearby localities. The flow was powerful enough to move cars and vans….

  • Home 2.0 (2008-2010)

    A shopping mall generation – the plaza kids. I took pictures of young people living in districts of block of flats for years. I tried to get closer to their world, activities, and pursuits. While mapping and capturing their ways of life, I inevitably visited the “temples of consumer culture,” the modern sacred spaces of spending…

  • Concrete youngsters (2004-2009)

    New kids on the block. Every fifth Hungarian family lives in huge blocks of flats, and one third of them in the capital city, Budapest. A forest of buildings made of prefabricated concrete elements where all the institutions of life (schools, shops, sport courses, medical facilities, etc.) are given in one closed space. On the…

  • Rear window (2004-2007)

    Un certain regard. Looking out from a window on the Muzeum avenue in the downtown of Budapest. Only the point of view and the angle are the same, but many important and less important events are visible within one year: the visit of President Bush, demonstartions and riots, disposition of the waste, police in action, changing of seasons…

  • Random Budapest

    Images taken at random places and dates in the city where I was born and where I’m living. Action gratuite photography – no specific plan, no serious reason, no explanation. From the ’90s until today. Panorama, 6×9 & 3:2. Automatic & manual. Analogue & digital. Mostly buildings. Some people. And me.

  • Rehab (2011)

    The KIMM therapy home of was founded for curing and treating alcohol-, drug- and gambling addicts at Ráckeresztúr. The insiders has to spend 9 months isolated in this Christian community while they are getting out of their bad and destroying habit. They has a strict daily routine: working around the house, rehabilitation programmes, teamworking, praying, recreation…

  • College (2010)

    Portraits of the students’ room in the “Stoczek” college, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. How do they live together as individuals and keep their privacy, intimacy, conformity in this temporary community at the same time? (Digital)

  • Marathon

    2013 October 13. Budapest Marathon. Millions run everyday as a recreational activity or train for completing the magic 42.195 kms (26.2 miles). One can find many marathon races every weekend. Year by year in October thousands are trying to challenge the distance.  On the road a runner faces with happy moments and setbacks too.  Mental stress, pain, strain,…

  • RetroMetro (2004-2006)

    Except for the Millennium Underground, the interior design of the stations of the metro lines (M2, M3) bring into our minds the Socialist stylistic touch of the 1970s and ’80s. These spaces and buildings both symbolically and nostalgically recall life phases of many generations, and also their interactions with Budapest. Then again, in our time…

  • Railway mates (2004-2006)

    The plan of the „summer city of young pioneers” started being outlined by the end of the 1940s. Along with the children’s camp of Csillebérc, the Children’s Railway of the Széchenyi mountain was built as well, where young mates were active from the beginning. The pioneer railway was the establishment of the sunnier side of…

  • Feather pluckers (2006)

    Goosefeather is plucked each summer by occasionally recruited brigades near to Orosháza and Szentes (South-East Hungary). The feather will be stuffed – dependig on quality – into pillows, beddings and jackets by the processing factories. A diligent worker plucks with 60-80 geese (neck and abdomen) from 7AM until 6PM and receives a receipt for each…

  • Bridgekeepers (2004-2005)

    If we google the Hungarian word “hídmester” (bridgekeepers), we get 67 results. Doing the same with “Erzsébet híd” (Elisabeth bridge), the number of hits is 115 000. They are the representatives of an ancient yet invisible profession: Péter Bene (Erzsébet bridge) Imre Fazekas (Margit bridge) János Fazekas (Chain bridge) Balázs Rehák (Lágymányosi bridge) Béla Kubik…

  • Vanity fair (2010)

    The Hungarian elite – culture, knowledge, power and money – meets year by year at the Budapest Opera Ball, the decadence universe of precious jewels and luxury tuxedos. This is a big “must-be-there” social event for the distinguished members of the upper-middle class and the jetset, for celebrities, stars and artists, for politicians and businessmen….

  • Thick red line (2010)

    The little village of Kolontar (Hungary) was evacuated because of an industrial accident at the Ajkai Timföldgyár alumina plant. A burst reservoir spilled hazardous sludge on Monday 04 October 2010. The mud was released as a 1,2 m (3,7 ft) wave, flooding several nearby localities. The flow was powerful enough to move cars and vans….

  • Home 2.0 (2008-2010)

    A shopping mall generation – the plaza kids. I took pictures of young people living in districts of block of flats for years. I tried to get closer to their world, activities, and pursuits. While mapping and capturing their ways of life, I inevitably visited the “temples of consumer culture,” the modern sacred spaces of spending…

  • Concrete youngsters (2004-2009)

    New kids on the block. Every fifth Hungarian family lives in huge blocks of flats, and one third of them in the capital city, Budapest. A forest of buildings made of prefabricated concrete elements where all the institutions of life (schools, shops, sport courses, medical facilities, etc.) are given in one closed space. On the…

  • Rear window (2004-2007)

    Un certain regard. Looking out from a window on the Muzeum avenue in the downtown of Budapest. Only the point of view and the angle are the same, but many important and less important events are visible within one year: the visit of President Bush, demonstartions and riots, disposition of the waste, police in action, changing of seasons…