Pictures and Pixels - Photographic Art and Beyond
National Salon 2016

András Balla

PHOTOGRAPHER

1945

Chemist, landscape architect, senior designer, photographer, founder and artistic director of the Esztergom Photography Biennale. Head of the Studio of Young Photographers between 1990–1996, a member of a number of Hungarian groups of photographers. He was awarded the Prix Air France in 1985, the Balogh Rudolf Prize in 1992, the André Kertész Prize in 1997, and the Hungarian Photography Grand Prize in 2009. He has had creative scholarships to Paris, Espoo, Rome, Frankfurt, Cologne, Sofia, Helsinki, New York, and Salzburg. He has taken part at more than a hundred group and solo exhibitions. His best-known series: Fényképezni tilos! (No photography!); Szekvenciák (Sequences); Kocsmakerékpárok (Bar Bikes); Betonpillangó (Concrete Butterfly); Menedék (Refuge); Illatos kert (Sweet-smelling Garden).

Dobogókő (from the series Refuge)

2009
170 × 70 cm | scanned negative

Dobogókő (from the series Refuge)

Mártély, Tisza backwater (from the series Refuge)

2010
50 × 122 cm | scanned negative

Mártély, Tisza backwater (from the series Refuge)